21 September 2024
Below you will find the curated resources from our first Parent Workshop of the year, focused on addiction, including screen addiction. This workshop is part of REAL School's ongoing effort to build a conscious, caring community, offering practical strategies to support the wellbeing of our children and ourselves.
These resources provide insights into the effects of addiction on youth mental health and offer actionable steps to address this growing concern. We hope they will be valuable tools for parents both within and beyond our school community.
Articles
Son smoking pot: Normal experimentation or cause for concern? (4 minutes)
Dr Gabor Maté speaks with the local community about trauma and addiction (6 minutes)
Generation Anxiety: smartphones have created a Gen Z mental health crisis – but there are ways to fix it (12 minutes)
Addiction: Childhood Trauma, Stress and the Biology of Addiction research paper (16 minutes)
Videos
Screenagers documentary trailer (3 minutes)
How a phone-based childhood is having disastrous effects (6 minutes)
How new addictions are destroying us (36 minutes)
The creepy line - full documentary on social media's manipulation of society (80 minutes)
Social media dangers documentary - Childhood 2.0 (88 minutes)
Movies
Books
The Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt
Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh
The Shining by Stephen King
