Over the last few months I’ve been chatting to Pandora Sykes about all things adolescence, and today the interview is published on her Substack
We cover sleep, body image, Mean Girls, social media, mental health and the topic of the moment (Netflix’s Adolescence)
Read here: https://tinyurl.com/39r4vk3ee
We cover sleep, body image, Mean Girls, social media, mental health and the topic of the moment (Netflix’s Adolescence)
Read here: https://tinyurl.com/39r4vk3ee
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Sounds like a fab conversation to tuck into…
https://pandorasykes.substack.com/p/a-leading-psychologist-on-adolescence
Am interested that you think it would be useful to show in schools to stimulate discussion. Used like a universal approach? I worry about the depiction of Jamie seen as typical and teen boys being demonised.
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https://www.instagram.com/p/DH8NSEPIxwx/?img_index=1
Talking to a parent recently in relation to a non violent incident involving another teenage boy, they brought up the Netflix series and seemed to evoke a heightened sensitivity towards relatively low level/non criminal misconduct.
Needs a balanced, evidenced and tested approach.