Mental health of children and young people ‘at risk in digital age’

Violent video games, the sharing of indecent images on mobile phones, and other types of digital communications, are harming young people’s mental health, MPs warned on Wednesday, amid evidence of big increases in self-harm and serious psychological problems among the under-18s.Cyberbullying and websites advocating anorexia and self-harm are also posing a danger to the mental wellbeing of children and young people, the Commons health select committee says in its report.
http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/nov/05/children-cyberbullying-self-harm-gaming-mps-concern

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