A - Z Guide to Children and Young People's Digital Mental Health - by Becca Randell (Paperback)
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Highlights
- Are you concerned about how much time your child is spending on online and what they are accessing?
- About the Author: Becca Randell is a Children's Digital Consultant and the Founder of Empowering Digital Lives, which aims to help parents and professionals to support not only themselves but also children and young people to thrive online through digital literacy as well as safety and digital wellbeing.
- 230 Pages
- Family + Relationships, Parenting
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Book Synopsis
Are you concerned about how much time your child is spending on online and what they are accessing? Do you feel out of your depth keeping up with the latest apps and technology? Whilst digital technology allows for many social, emotional and educational benefits, it can impact a young person's mental wellbeing in a detrimental way. The digital landscape is ever-changing with growing numbers of children and young people avid users of multiple online platforms. This book will guide the reader through an A-Z of digital mental health, from gaming, networking, and social media to awareness of fake news, misogyny, and trolling. It provides tips and activities to help encourage further discussions, ways to approach difficult conversations and promote positive and safe relationships with digital technology.Review Quotes
Emily Brock, CEO, YMCA DownsLink Group9th September 2025
This book is an indispensable guide for parents, teachers, educators and professionals navigating the ever-evolving world of children and young people's digital mental health. Drawing on Becca's extensive experience and expertise, it explores the pressing challenges young people face online - from fake news and body image pressures to digital self-harm, trolling, gambling, gaming, online hate, FOMO, influencers, and AI. In a time of uncertainty, with limited regulation and guidance from authorities, it provides practical insights and reassurance, helping adults support young people safely, confidently, and compassionately in the digital age.
Professor Robin Banerjee, Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Global and Civic Engagement University of Sussex9th September 2025
Becca Randell's guide to digital mental health for children and young people is informative, evidence-based, insightful, and extremely timely. The A to Z list of topics, from AI to Zoning Out, covers a diverse set of key contemporary issues that are playing out in the everyday digital worlds of children and young people, and spilling over into their offline interactions with each other and with the adults in their lives.
Becca Randell combines deep knowledge and understanding from her extensive professional experience with the latest statistical data, research findings, and new evidence from extensive consultation with parents, with educators and other professionals, and importantly with children and young people themselves. As well as setting out a helpful overarching framework that integrates these insights, the guide will help readers navigate what often feels like a bewildering set of challenges in today's digital world, with simple but powerful activities and practical tips.
About the Author
Becca Randell is a Children's Digital Consultant and the Founder of Empowering Digital Lives, which aims to help parents and professionals to support not only themselves but also children and young people to thrive online through digital literacy as well as safety and digital wellbeing. She is currently leading the mobilisation of digital mental health innovation as part of the Health Innovation Network and the implementation of research in children and young people's mental health for National Institute of Health and Care (NIHR) Applied Research Collaboration. She is a mother of two teenagers and presents both nationally and internationally on children's mental wellbeing.