{"id":69794,"date":"2025-01-03T10:23:09","date_gmt":"2025-01-03T10:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=69794"},"modified":"2025-01-03T10:23:09","modified_gmt":"2025-01-03T10:23:09","slug":"as-a-child-psychiatrist-i-see-what-smartphones-are-doing-to-kids-mental-health-and-its-terrifying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2025\/01\/03\/as-a-child-psychiatrist-i-see-what-smartphones-are-doing-to-kids-mental-health-and-its-terrifying\/","title":{"rendered":"As a child psychiatrist, I see what smartphones are doing to kids\u2019 mental health \u2013 and it\u2019s terrifying"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA1wTSDL.img?w=768&amp;h=461&amp;m=6\" alt=\"\u2018The average UK 12-year-old now spends 29 hours a week \u2013 equivalent to a part-time job \u2013 on their smartphone.\u2019 Photograph: Yui Mok\/PA\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Smartphone use among children has reached a critical moment. Many of us in the UK are increasingly aware of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2024\/dec\/17\/children-swiped-channel-4-smartphones-mental-health-addiction\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">dangers associated with them<\/a> \u2013 and as a child and adolescent psychiatrist,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/health\/other\/as-a-child-psychiatrist-i-see-what-smartphones-are-doing-to-kids-mental-health-and-it-s-terrifying\/ar-AA1wTGrj?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=03392fec5415484395d2c26443906009&amp;ei=26\"> Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Smartphone use among children has reached a critical moment. Many of us in the UK are increasingly aware of the\u00a0dangers associated with&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":56928,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-69794","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/child-worring.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69794"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69795,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69794\/revisions\/69795"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}