Screenagers Next Chapter at SLV
This movie is about teen anxiety. It is not the same as the first screenagers movie about screen time!
Thursday, September 5th, 7:00pm
🏫 San Lorenzo Valley High School, 7105 Highway 9 📚
Join us and learn more about solutions to the anxiety, depression, suicidal ideation, and other mental health challenges our kids are experiencing.
🎬 This is a movie for parents and teenagers. It is appropriate for 6th-12th graders and their parents. Parents and teens are welcome to join together or on their own. (We strongly encourage parents to bring their 6th grade+ children if they can, but come on their own if they cannot.)
📊🎬 Facts this movie discusses include
- Since 2012, there has been a 50% increase in teens reporting depressive symptoms. 😔😞
- Half of adults with mental health challenges experienced symptoms before age 15. 🚻💔
- Teens are recommended to sleep 8-10 hours each night, however, 41% get 7 hours or less (American Academy of Sleep Medicine). 😴⏰🌙
- Of those with devices in their rooms, 36% of teens wake at night to check them. 📱🌙💤
- By listening to our teens, providing support, and connecting them to appropriate resources and services, families have an important role to play. 🤝👪💼💙
- Our teens don’t need to suffer, and we can help! 🤗🙌💪
Trailer
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Synopsis
Filmmaker and physician Delaney Ruston uses a personal lens and professional eye to help us all flip the script on stress, anxiety, and depression. We follow Delaney as she finds herself at a loss on how to help her own teens as they struggle with their emotional wellbeing. Ruston sets out to understand these challenges in our current screen-filled society, and how we as parents and schools empower teens to overcome mental health challenges and build emotional agility, communication savvy, and stress resilience.
We witness Delaney as she finds her way from ineffective parenting to much-improved strategies. We follow other personal stories of families from an array of backgrounds with a spectrum of emotional challenges. We also observe approaches in schools that provide strategies relevant beyond the classroom setting. Interwoven into the stories are surprising insights from brain researchers, psychologists, and thought-leaders that reveal evidence-based ways to support mental wellness among our youth. The impact of social media and screen time in general is incorporated in topics brought to our attention in Screenagers NEXT CHAPTER, how it may be impacting our teen’s mental health, and what we can do to help support youth in the face of struggles.