Dr. Belinha De Abreu, PhD.

It is often said that social media was a "lifeline" for young people during Covid. The internet, sure, but social media? A new longitudinal study finds that college students who used this "lifeline" more became MORE depressed, subsequently: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…

The UK continues to show the way. 17 secondary schools in South London take collective action and go phone free, with a clever twist to discourage smartphone ownership: When a smartphone is found, it is confiscated far longer than a basic phone theguardian.com/technology/a…

If you are looking for a video to send to the head of your child's school, on why the school MUST go phone-free by September if it cares about mental health, social development, or learning, this is my best lecture making the case:

I'm pleased to have been chosen as one of @TIME Magazine's 100 most influential people improving health, #TIME100HEALTH. I think my main contribution is diagnosing the collective action problems, and pointing to ways we can escape, collectively. time.com/6968942/jonathan-ha…

Has Britain followed the same terrible trajectory as America: loss of play-based childhood, rise of phone-based, decline of mental health? Yes. Please see this Google doc, where we assemble all the evidence on both sides. I'm in London this week, would love input from UK residents. docs.google.com/document/d/1…