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MediaPulse: A Guide for Health Practitioners

MédiaScope - Les médias dans la vie des jeunes

MediaPulse GuideA 20-page guide that explores current research on media influences on the health and well-being of children and adolescents and offers practical suggestions for the integration of media awareness into the practice setting.


Printed versions of this guide may be obtained by contacting the Media Awareness Network.

Media History Form

Media History FormA standardized age-appropriate media history tool to help health practitioners identify potential risk areas associated with a patient’s media use.


Tips to Manage Media Use in the Home

MediaPulse - Tips to Manage Media in the HomeA parent handout with advice for managing children’s media use. This tipsheet can be photocopied and made available to parents in a health-care setting.


Paediatrics & Child Health journal articles

The following articles on media influences on children and adolescents are from the CPS’s Paediatrics & Child Health Journal, Vol 8 No 5 May/June 2003:

Putting Media Under the Microscope
Understanding and challenging media’s influence on the health and well-being of children and youth

Simon Davidson MB BCh FRCPC, Arlette Lefebvre MD FRCPC DCP OOn CM, Patricia Morris MD CCFPC,Peter Nieman MD FRCPC, Catherine Swift BA

The Digital Divide – A New Generation Gap
Parental knowledge of their children’s Internet use

Catherine Swift BA, Anne Taylor BA BEd

The Impact of the Media on Eating Disorders in Children and Adolescents

Anne M Morris MBBS MPH FRACP1, Debra K Katzman MD FRCPC2
La Violence sur les réseaux canadiens de télévision

Guy Paquette Ph. D.

Teens, Sex and the Media: Is There a Connection?

Christina Grant MD FRCPC



 
 
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