Social Media - Its use and impact on Mental Health and Wellbeing among young people.

A review of the links between social media use and mental health and wellbeing of young people, commissioned in NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde Specialist Children’s Services Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services, and in Mental Health Improvement in NHSGGC.

The topic of social media use in the young people we see in CAMHS had been raised in many clinical and supervisory conversations. Clinical staff had talked of concerns about social media links, and conversations with young people who were self-harming, indicated that some had contacts to others in the same situation.

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