[etni] Fwd: Trying to Find a Cry of Desperation Amid the Facebook Drama
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From: Margie Cohen-Jackel <margiecj@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Trying to Find a Cry of Desperation Amid the Facebook Drama
While not directly related to English teaching, this article is about
something we
all deal with--or will need to at some point, in any case.........
(See the article in this yesterday's (Feb. 24) Israel Today magazine
section about
David-El Mizrachi for more on the subject. In Hebrew.)
Trying to Find a Cry of Desperation Amid the Facebook Drama
The New York Times
February 23, 2012
By JAN HOFFMAN
For adolescents, Facebook and other social media have created an
irresistible forum for online sharing and oversharing, so much so that
endless mood-of-the-moment updates have inspired a snickering retort
on T-shirts and posters: “Face your problems, don’t Facebook them.”
But specialists in adolescent medicine and mental health experts say
that dark postings should not be hastily dismissed because they can
serve as signs of depression and an early warning system for timely
intervention. Whether therapists should engage with patients over
Facebook, however, remains a matter of debate.
And parents have their own conundrum: how to distinguish a teenager’s
typically melodramatic mutterings — like the “worst day of my life”
rants about their “frenemies,” academics or even cafeteria food — from
a true emerging crisis.
*To read the whole article, go to -
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/24/us/facebook-posts-can-offer-clues-of-depression.html
Margie Cohen-Jackel
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