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$25.00 USD
1 contact hour= 1 Professional Development Unit (PDU)
Social media is here to stay. Although it has connected us during the pandemic it also has a dark side. Since 2009, the first year social media was accessible on phones, self-harm and suicide rates in girls between 10-14 has soared; increasing 4x between 1999-2018 (CDC, 2020). Kendall (Rhodes & Orlowski, 2020) suggests that the misuse of social media and the outrage shared by like-minded political groups could lead to a Civil War. The impact of social media is great and affects us at a societal level.
OT’s can play a role in the re-socialization of interpersonal relations by harnessing the power of social media to support engagement in meaningful occupations and promote functional socialization for the betterment of society. This presentation will discuss how OT’s can be trained as an asset to big tech companies in interventions to adapt the current social media landscape to support functional socialization.
Social media is here to stay. Although it has connected us during the pandemic it also has a dark side. Since 2009, the first year social media was accessible on phones, self-harm and suicide rates in girls between 10-14 has soared; increasing 4x between 1999-2018 (CDC, 2020). Kendall (Rhodes & Orlowski, 2020) suggests that the misuse of social media and the outrage shared by like-minded political groups could lead to a Civil War. The impact of social media is great and affects us at a societal level.
OT’s can play a role in the re-socialization of interpersonal relations by harnessing the power of social media to support engagement in meaningful occupations and promote functional socialization for the betterment of society. This presentation will discuss how OT’s can be trained as an asset to big tech companies in interventions to adapt the current social media landscape to support functional socialization.