Live Webinar
Screen Safety Essentials: Prevention, Identification, and Treatment of Digital Injuries - September 6
Objective
- Describe six ways screen media impacts children and families.
- List of three “red flags” that may indicate digital injury.
- Describe three strategies for family treatment, focusing on parent-child attachment exercises and resiliency skills.
Upcoming Dates For This Webinar
This webinar runs from 10am to 1:15pm Pacific Time.
Course Description
Screen safety is a major concern for 76% of families. Yet only 65% of children have talked to their parents about online safety. 84% of parents take steps to monitor or restrict their children’s online activities, yet over 30% say they hesitate to raise awareness about screen dangers to their kids in fear they will alert or scare them. Parents turn to educators and health and mental service providers for the identification and treatment of digital injuries like addiction, victimization from predators, cyberbullying, financial exploitation, distraction, and misinformation, among others - issues that could have been prevented. In severe situations, partial outpatient or inpatient treatment is required with a family component. The tech knowledge gap between “tech immigrant” parents and experts versus “tech native” youth is challenging, especially for those who haven’t received specialized training. This webinar provides mental health clinicians with strategies to prevent, identify, assess, and treat digital injuries.
Instructor
Tracy Bennett Ph.D.
Dr. Bennett is a licensed clinical psychologist and screen safety expert, who teaches families how to strengthen relationships AND achieve screen sanity. She is the founder and CEO of GetKidsInternetSafe (GKIS) and the author of Screen Time in the Mean Time: A Parently Guide to Get Kids and Teens Internet Safe.
In her work as a licensed clinical psychologist for 30 years, she sees the impacts of digital injury and how to treat and prevent it. After being distracted by the loss of her parents, she needed answers for her kids; shame-free, actionable strategies that work. They weren’t out there, so she committed to the GKIS mission of digital injury prevention. She doesn’t rely on scare tactics and extreme no-screen recommendations. Instead, her approach is to empower training participants with clinically tested strategies. Her research and teaching as faculty at CSUCI complement her warm, real-life skill set. She consults with experts in technology and education and has served on the Youth Advisory Team for Facebook’s Messenger Kids and was the Global Ambassador of TeenSafe. Her television and radio appearances, keynotes, blog articles, and online parenting programs make a powerful impact on families.
About This Webinar
The webinar is a live, interactive class. You will view the webinar in real time from your home or office on a computer, tablet (e.g., iPad) or phone. You will be able see the speaker and the slides, and you will have the opportunity to ask questions and respond to polls. You will have access to the handouts, which you can view on your computer or download and print.
You will need to show up on time to receive credit, just like at an in-person class, but you can wear whatever you’d like! The class will run from 10am to 1:15pm Pacific Time. There will be a morning and afternoon break and a break for lunch. At the end of the class you will need to take a post-test and receive a score of 75% or above to pass. You have up to three attempts to pass the post-test. Most people pass on their first attempt. After two attempts to pass the post-test you will need to contact our office and you will be provided with one more attempt to pass the post-test. The post-test will only be available at the end of the class. Once you pass the post-test, you will complete an evaluation online and then you will receive your Certificate of Attendance online, which you can view and print.
Cancellation Policy
There is a $35.00 processing fee, per seminar, for refunds requested by the Wednesday prior to the weekend of the webinar. After that time, there will be no refunds. If a course must be cancelled due to an unforeseen event (e.g., natural disaster, instructor illness), the webinar will be rescheduled. Participants will be credited to take the rescheduled course or another PPS webinar. No refunds will be given.
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