Social Media & Risky Behaviors

Some topics to be covered include:

• Instagram, Snapchat, Twitter and more: How to use social media with emotional intelligence, in order to be a healthy digital citizen.
• Screen addiction: Understanding how social media apps are actually designed to increase addiction, and strategies you can use to manage the constant need to be connected.
• Social anxiety and social media behaviors: How underlying anxiety affects choices.
• Aggression and cyberbullying: How to de-escalate conflict and respond to mistreatment both in the digital world and in person.
• Impulsiveness: Learning to slow down and evaluate potential consequences of impulsive urges, such as sexual misconduct, substance abuse, cyberbullying, and self-harm.
• Groupthink: Understanding the herd mentality that drives viral videos and behaviors, and learning to think as an independent person outside the pressure of the group.
• Heroism: Teaching bystanders to act as witnesses and allies when they see friends making poor choices, and how to avoid the stigma of being labeled a snitch.
• Sexualization and harassment: Understanding and resisting rape culture and changing a victim-blaming mentality.