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How Narratives in Video Games Affect Children and Adolescents

Allowing players the ability to project certain aspects of their psychological attributes to their avatars allows them to become the hero…

4 min readMay 31, 2021

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How Narratives in Video Games Affect Children and Adolescents

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Q and A with Mental Health Professional — Vicki Harrison, MSW

We asked teens from around the United States to anonymously send us questions that they would like to be answered by a mental health…

4 min readMay 19, 2021

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Q and A with Mental Health Professional — Vicki Harrison, MSW

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Q and A with Mental Health Professional — Dr. Maryam Kia-Keating

We asked teens from around the United States to anonymously send us questions that they would like to be answered by a mental health…

8 min readMay 18, 2021

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Q and A with Mental Health Professional — Dr. Maryam Kia-Keating

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Gaming and the COVID-19 Pandemic

As an avid gamer, I’m very familiar with the all-too-common phrases from parents about my gaming habits. From Mom telling me to “put my…

4 min readDec 21, 2020

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Gaming and the COVID-19 Pandemic

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Embracing Technology as a Tool for Healthy Attachments in Adolescence

Thirteen-year-old Kayla is dragged away from her social media by the interruption of her father’s voice at the dinner table. Dad is trying…

5 min readDec 7, 2020

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Embracing Technology as a Tool for Healthy Attachments in Adolescence

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What’s in a Story? How Sociomoral Narratives Can Inform Our Approach to Superhero Media

As someone who has been fascinated with superheroes since elementary school, I am amazed at the explosion of superhero media (cartoons…

5 min readNov 16, 2020

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What’s in a Story? How Sociomoral Narratives Can Inform Our Approach to Superhero Media

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Supporting Science in an Age of Denial

As the world grapples with the ongoing devastation of climate change coupled with a global pandemic, it’s more important than ever that we…

5 min readNov 2, 2020

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Supporting Science in an Age of Denial

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Foster or Otherwise, Parenting is Parenting: Love, care, and try your best

Media content has the power to shape perceptions and views on a mass scale. Unfortunately, media portrayals of youth in foster care are…

6 min readOct 30, 2020

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Foster or Otherwise, Parenting is Parenting: Love, care, and try your best

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Developing Wisdom

You may have heard the old saying, “Wisdom is something that comes with age”, and while there is truth to this, children and adolescents…

5 min readOct 30, 2020

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Developing Wisdom

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Forgiveness

Elsa had a point: How developing the ability to “let it go” can help youth to cope and maintain social relationships

5 min readOct 30, 2020

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Forgiveness

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Center for Scholars & Storytellers

Bridging the gap between scholars and storytellers to support positive youth development. #media #youth Learn more here: https://www.scholarsandstorytellers.com

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