mental health Archives - Shaping Youth

Students Plea To Take Action Against Gun Violence, Adults Fail Miserably

June 4, 2019 by Amy Jussel 2 Comments

June 4, 2019 As “wear orange” events pop up around the nation this weekend to protest gun violence, and students march in solidarity demanding action from impotent lawmakers tethered to gun lobbyists, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Growing up too soon, Pro-Social & Positive Picks Tagged With: #gunviolence, #WearOrange, 22 X 20, active shooter drills, APA study mental health, Everytown, Generation Z, GenZ, Give youth the mic, gun control, gun violence, Julia Heilrayne, kids and public health, March for our Lives, mental health, Moms Demand Action, Parkland, school shootings, Since Parkland, student voice, teen voters, Wear orange, youth activists, YTH.org

YTH: Youth, Tech, Health–Shaping Youth Interviews YTH Jamia Wilson

March 29, 2014 by Amy Jussel Leave a Comment

Mar. 29, 2014 Like a teen whose spirited, edgy adolescence evolved toward bold innovation, I’ve watched YTH.org "grow up" as an organization over time, expanding and emerging into one of the most … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Emerging trends & STEM, Positive Picks, Pro-Social & Positive Picks Tagged With: #FemFuture, Advocates-for-youth, Apps Against Abuse Challenge, at risk youth, bullying, campus safety, circle of 6 app, crisis text line, Deb-Levine, digital health, diversity and health, domestic abuse, hackathon for health, health apps, health literacy, Health2.0, ihollaback, Internet sexuality information services, Jamia Wilson, media-literacy, mental health, mHealth, millennials, Parenting-Teens, rape culture, reproductive rights, sexed, SexTech, sexting, sexual health, sexuality, street harassment, suicide prevention, support for teens, Tech diversity gap, teen dating violence, Texting4Health, wired youth, young feminists, Youth public health, youth tech health, Youth-advocacy, YTH, YthLive

Julia Bluhm’s Plea To Curb PhotoShop Sparks Change at Seventeen Mag

July 8, 2012 by Amy Jussel 5 Comments

July 8, 2012 No secret the 'world according to teen magazines' is abysmal for girls, and we've seen mega-stats, studies and fact sheets about the impact on tweens and teens, (KFF pdf here) but as the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Advertising, Branding & Consumerism, Consumerism, Counter-marketing, Emerging trends & STEM, Growing up too soon, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Nutrition & Wellness, Positive Picks, Pro-Social & Positive Picks, Sexualization & Body Image, Shaping Youth, Stereotypes & Diversity Tagged With: adolescent body image, Ann Shoket, beauty myth, body ideals, Body Peace Treaty, Change.org, do no harm, Early-Sexualization, girls self esteem, girls-self-worth, Julia Bluhm, Keep It Real, media impact on girls, Media-Kids, media-literacy, mental health, Miss Representation, National Eating Disorder Awareness, NEDA, Photoshop models, photoshopping body image, preteen-health, preteen-self-esteem, Seventeen Magazine, socioemotional health, SPARK, spark change, Take Back Beauty, teen depression, teen magazines, Teen Vogue petition, teens-media, thinspiration, visual literacy

Using Media to Uplift and Inspire: When to Tune In, Not Out.

December 20, 2011 by Amy Jussel 2 Comments

Dec. 20, 2011 True confessions, it’s been a heckuva challenging year, and it got me thinking about what different people do to bootstrap themselves out of adversity in its many forms whether it’s … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Consumerism, Emerging trends & STEM, Growing up too soon, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Mobile Media, Apps & Gaming, Nutrition & Wellness, Positive Picks, Pro-Social & Positive Picks, Shaping Youth Tagged With: Cheer for the cheerless, child slavery, CNN Heroes, coping skills, Do Good, Do Something, Facebook suicide reporting tool, GEMSGIRLS, Gen Y, Gen Z, Holiday blues, human trafficking, Inspire Foundation, inspiring minds, intervention, ISIS Advocates for Youth, Kids Are Heroes, Kids health, kids role models, Love146, Media-Influence-Kids, mental health, philanthropy, positive media, resilience, sexual health, social media activism, student stress, teen-suicide-prevention, teens depression, Tune In Not Out, tweens, youth angst, youth outreach, youth resources, youth support

It’s Veteran’s Day: If I Have To Tell You One More Time…

November 11, 2011 by Amy Jussel 8 Comments

Nov. 11, 2011 As schools let out for the Friday Veteran’s Day holiday, I double-dog dare you to ask each child why they get the day off and submit the answers here for a positive parenting … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Advertising, Branding & Consumerism, Consumerism, Emerging trends & STEM, Growing up too soon, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Product Placement, Shaping Youth Tagged With: #milfam, 11-11-11, Amy McCready, anti-war, armed forces day, battlefields, Blue Star Families, branding veterans day, Buried, Call of Duty, cause marketing, combat, conscience, deployment, duty honor, Five Point Snacks, flags of our fathers, gears of war, Glory, hawks and doves, healing, heroes, homecoming, honoring fallen, honoring troops, If I have to tell you one more time, Kids, kids grief, kids stress, line of duty, living peacefully, materialism, memorial day, mental health, military, military families, My Vetwork, nagging, National Holidays, operation gratitude, patriot, pay it forward parenting, peace, pester power, platoon, Playing War, Positive Parenting Solutions, PTSD, reach and teach, reverence, ROTC, salute, Saving Private Ryan, Sears Heroes at Home, servicemen, servicewomen, sesame workshop TLC, soldier care packages, soldiers, stress, Students, support veterans, teach your children well, USO, veterans, Veterans charities, Veterans Day, Veterans Day 2011, virtual healing, war, wounded, Wounded Warrior Project

KFC’s “Assvertising”–A Double Down of Unhealthy Cues

September 22, 2010 by Amy Jussel 3 Comments

September 22, 2010 Would you like a sideorder of sexualization with that heart attack? If the excess sodium from KFC’s Double Down innuendo-laden sat fat monstrosity doesn’t raise your risk factor … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Advertising, Branding & Consumerism, Consumerism, Damaging Drek, Emerging trends & STEM, Growing up too soon, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Product Placement, Sexualization & Body Image, Shaping Youth, Stereotypes & Diversity, Vapid Values, Viral & Buzz Media Tagged With: AHA, ambient advertising, American Apparel, Amy-Jussel, Andre Blackman, APA report early sexualization, assvertising, best bottom contest, Body Blitz, bottom feeders, bottoms, boys into monsters, brand-ambassadors, bunless, buns, butts, CCFC, College co-eds, college girls, commodification, CSPI, date rape drugs, Double Down, DoubleDown, DV of sodium, ethics, fast food, frat boys, FTC, girls, girls-self-worth, gluteus ad maximus, heart attacks, Human-billboards, IOM, junk-food, KFC, kidney disease, Kids health, meat marketing, Media-Influence-Kids, mental health, Pornification, public health, rape, rent your backside, Salt assault, salt intake, self-esteem girls, sex sells, sexploitation, Sexualization, Sexualization & Body Image, So Sexy So Soon, socioemotional health, sodium, SPARK! summit, spokesbutts, stroke, teens, youth

Memorial Day Salute: Reverence, Reflection, Resources

May 28, 2010 by Amy Jussel 9 Comments

May 27, 2016 Update Poignant new documentary trailer/film fundraiser about the impact of war on military families, called "Weight of Honor" which is a solemn reminder of sacrifices made, lives changed … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Growing up too soon, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Positive Picks, Pro-Social & Positive Picks, Shaping Youth, Stereotypes & Diversity Tagged With: anti-war, armed forces day, battlefields, Buried, combat, conscience, Daniel Inouye, deployment, flags of our fathers, gears of war, Glory, hawks and doves, healing, heroes, History channel, homecoming, honoring fallen, honoring troops, Kids, line of duty, living peacefully, M*A*S*H*, memorial day, Memorial Day 2010, mental health, military, My Vetwork, MyVetwork, Narada Michael Walden, National Holidays, operation gratitude, patriot, peace, platoon, Playing War, PTSD, reach and teach, reverence, ROTC, salute, Saving Private Ryan, servicemen, servicewomen, sesame workshop TLC, soldier care packages, soldiers, stress, Students, support veterans, teach your children well, USO, veterans, Veterans Day, virtual healing, war, wounded

Sexualization Summit: Save the Date Oct 22, 2010 NYC

May 17, 2010 by Amy Jussel 22 Comments

May 17, 2010 As irony would have it, on Thurs, May 13, in New York City, a small tribe of thought leaders convened on how to best address rampant sexualization of youth in media and marketing. Each … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Advertising, Branding & Consumerism, Consumerism, Damaging Drek, Emerging trends & STEM, Growing up too soon, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Misogyny & Racism, Sexualization & Body Image, Shaping Youth, Stereotypes & Diversity, Vapid Values, Viral & Buzz Media Tagged With: 10-22-10, 2010, 7 year olds, academic rockstars, adolescence, adults behaving badly, All the Scholar Ladies, APA sexualization study, appearance cues, behavior, beyonce, boy toys, Bratz, children, Consuming kids, corporate pedophilia, Damaging Drek, dancing, dereon divas, desensitized, desire, Dr. Robyn, eating-disorders, emotional health, Empowering girls, harm, HGHW, hostile takeover of childhood, HR4925, Hunter College, hypersexualized, Jean Kilbourne, Kids, kidvid, Killing Us Softly 4, lapdancing, Lyn Mikel-Brown, media influence, mental health, Miley Cyrus, Oct 22, Packaging-Girlhood, PigTail Pals, pole dancing, poptarts, Pornification, preteens, public health policy, Pussycat Dolls, Robyn-Silverman, Sesame Streetwalkers, sexploitation, sexual-health-teens, sexualized childhood, Single Ladies, Susan Linn, Teen Choice Awards, true child, tweens, women's media center, Womens'

“Mouse Inc?” Disney Bullies Small & Mighty CCFC From Home?

March 10, 2010 by Amy Jussel 14 Comments

March 10, 2010 I bought and watched Academy Award nominee Food Inc. last night, the riveting documentary on corporate pressures leaning hard on farmers that’s nothing short of mafia-style thuggery … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Advertising, Consumerism, Emerging trends & STEM, Growing up too soon, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, People Shaping Youth, Shaping Youth Tagged With: AAP, advocacy, Baby Einstein, baby media, baby videos, banished, Brainy Baby, bullying, Campaign for a Commercial Free Childhood, CCFC, children, Children's group loses its lease, commercialization, consumer protection, Consuming kids, consumption, corporate ad creep, corporate raiders, corporate responsibility, democracy, Disney, disney refunds, Dr. Alvin F. Poussaint, DVD, emotional health, ethical marketing, Food Inc., free speech, FTC, Harvard, heroes, Hippety Hopper, JBCC, Josh Golin, Judge Baker Center, Kids, litigation, mafia maneuvers, media watchdogs, mental health, mouse house, NYT, profiteering, scrutiny, sheroes, SLJ, small and mighty, strong arming, Susan Linn, Third Sector New England, UCR Study

Addiction Series Part 3: Media, Medicos, & Critical Thinking

January 15, 2010 by Amy Jussel 12 Comments

Jan. 15, 2009 Thought I’d wrap up Part Three in this series on digital addiction vs. agency (part one and part two here) with some humorous insights from the medical community that poke fun at some … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Consumerism, Emerging trends & STEM, Growing up too soon, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Nutrition & Wellness, Shaping Youth, Stereotypes & Diversity, Viral & Buzz Media Tagged With: addiction, ADHD depression, APA, APA sexualization study, Asset Based Thinking, Consuming kids, Critical-thinking-skills, depression in teens, diagnosis, Digital, digital addictions, Don Tapscott, dsm process, DSM-V, entitlement, free agency, GenerationMe, Growing Up Digital, Hank Wasiak, how many shrinks does it take to change a diagnosis?, internet, internet addictions, Jean Trenge, KGOY, Kids, media influence, Media management, media-literacy, mental disorders, mental health, mind hacks, more mental health issues among youth, narcissism, net addiction, psychiatrists, psychobabble, psychology, saving play, Science Blog, Search Engine Journal, shrinks, social-media, Susan Linn, symptoms, teens, unstructured play, youth

Media Management: Addiction vs. Agency Part One

January 11, 2010 by Amy Jussel 15 Comments

Jan. 11, 2010 I’m officially back from my one week blog hiatus, victorious in keeping my New Year resolution to ‘unplug’ more, manage my media rather than having it manage me, and slip away sans … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Counter-marketing, Emerging trends & STEM, Interactive Games, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Mobile Media, Apps & Gaming, Nutrition & Wellness, Shaping Youth, Stereotypes & Diversity, Viral & Buzz Media Tagged With: addiction, agency, Alvin Toffler, Diagnostic & Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, disorders, DSM-V, electronic addiction, free agency, games, information overload, internet, internet addiction, Kids, manage media, Media management, media-literacy, MediaScape, mental health, mobile, Nature-Deficit-Disorder, net addiction, pediatrics, Pop-Culture, psychiatric disorder, psychiatry, quiet the mind, shackles, supergirls, teen dating violence, texting, tmi, Twitter, unplug, you don't own me

What About the Boys? ‘Packaging Boyhood’ Authors Respond

October 12, 2009 by Amy Jussel 16 Comments

Oct. 12, 2009 Tomorrow Shaping Youth advisors and authors of Packaging Boyhood launch their sequel book to my favorite media literacy teaching tool on the 'pink think' stereotypes front, Packaging … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Advertising, Branding & Consumerism, Consumerism, Emerging trends & STEM, Growing up too soon, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Mobile Media, Apps & Gaming, Sexualization & Body Image, Shaping Youth, Stereotypes & Diversity Tagged With: Adonis-Complex, aggression, Amp, Amp up before you score, Axe, beer ads, BomChickawahwah, boy toys, boys, boys costumes, boys to men, Buffed-Boys, bullies, dating violence, Gender, Halloween, how to treat women, Jackson Katz, kiddie cologne, Klondike Bars, Lyn Mikel-Brown, males, man cave, manhood, Mark Tappan, masculinity, media-literacy, men, mental health, Packaging-Boyhood, Pepsi, Pepsi Amp, player, Preteen-Boys, Pussycat Dolls, sexism, sexist commercials, sexist iPhone app, Sexuality-Boys, Sharon Lamb, slacker, superhero, thug wannabes, true child, video game violence, videogames, womanizer

Virtual Reality Meets Health2.0 For Kids Wellness & Therapy

October 9, 2009 by Amy Jussel 7 Comments

Oct. 9, 2009 Once upon a time in my former life as a creative director and copywriter, I was asked to create a compelling headline for a learning simulation where young Stanford law students could … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Emerging trends & STEM, Growing up too soon, Interactive Games, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Mobile Media, Apps & Gaming, Nutrition & Wellness, Shaping Youth Tagged With: Belinda Lange, children, creative technologies, disorders, education, Exposure therapy, Gaming For Health, healing, health, Health 2.0, intervention, Isis, Kids, learning, mental health, mobile, pain distraction, post traumatic stress, psychoanalysis, psychology, PTSD, rape crisis, recovery, rehabilitation, scent machines, sex ed, SexInfo, SexTech, simulations, STD-prevention, stress, teens, therapeutic benefit, therapy, train the trainer, training sims, trauma, USC, USC Institute for Creative Technologies, video games, violence, Virtual Afghanistan, Virtual Iraq, virtual patients, Virtual Reality, Virtual-Worlds, VRT, war, youth, youth relevant, YPulse

Therapeutic Impacts of Virtual Worlds: Using New Media Positively

May 5, 2009 by Amy Jussel 14 Comments

Aug. 8, 2016 Please pitch in to add your data/case studies from VR pain management to VR for psychiatric use and more... ...Currently working on an update about positive media innovation including … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Branding & Consumerism, Emerging trends & STEM, Interactive Games, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Positive Picks, Pro-Social & Positive Picks, Product Placement, Shaping Youth Tagged With: #digitalhealth, Andre Blackman, AT&T simulator, Cancer, disease, Embodied Labs, G4H, games for health, Gaming For Health, healing, health, Health 2.0, Health Further, healthcare, HopeLab, hospitals, humana, Kids, mental health, Nationwide Children's Hospital, pediatric, physical therapy, Pokemon Go public health, PTSD, ReMission, Rendever Health, schools, serious-games, stroke, technology, teens, therapeutic, Virtual-Worlds, VR eldercare, VR empathy training, VR simulations, youth

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