13 Reasons Why TV episode and Your construction of a social media post about teen mental health – 13 Reasons Why TV episode and posting sample social media post 1

Purpose of this assignment: Research shows the mental health issues in teens is rising and this week we are going to explore issues that might lead to self-harm. I am going to ask you to construct a social media posting directly to teens about the issues of mental health etc.

TV episode: 13  Reason Why (Season 1 / Episode 1)

You can find this TV episode on Netflix, prime video

Readings:

Uhls, Y. T., Felt, L., Wartella, E., & Sanders, A. (2021). Investigating Viewership of Season 3 of “13 Reasons Why” and the Mental Wellness of Adolescents: Partially Randomized Preference Trial. JMIR Mental Health, 8(9),   e25782–e25782. 

link to articleLinks to an external site.

https://mental.jmir.org/2021/9/e25782

  Orben, A., & Blakemore, S.-J. (2024). How social media affects teen mental health: a missing link.  Nature (London, 614(7948), 410–412. https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-023-00402-\Links to an external site.                         social media articleLinks to an external site.

https://opa.hhs.gov/adolescent-health/mental-health-adolescents

https://www.samhsa.gov/school-campus-health/behavioral-health-resources-youth

https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/adolescent-mental-health

 Questions:

1. In your first posting in this discussion Based on  the TV episode and the readings, what do you think about using a TV show to talk about suicides among teens? Do you think it is effective? What does the readings say and do you agree or disagree?(use APA to indicate which readings).

1. In your second posting,

This month is National Adolescent Health month so I would like you to write content for social media on mental health (for example, depression, anxiety, suicide etc.) 

1. May is National Adolescent Health Month and Mental Health Month. I would like you to write a post about adolescent mental health
2. Choose on social media platform (Instagram, threads, X(Twitter) etc. I do not expect you to post
3. State where you would post this social media content (Facebook, twitter, linked in). If you want to be creative and do a TikTok or Instagram visual – that would be great as well
4. Who is your audience? Teens, parents, etc.
5. Post the social media you created