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Informed or Infirmed? Healthy Media Consumption and Social Media Usage

Wednesday, August 13, 2025 12:00pm to 1:00pm EDT

Are your media consumption habits helping you make good decisions or are they making you sick? The news and social media are significant sources of stress and anxiety for many people. Participating in social media discussions, reading newspapers, following your favorite political pundits and watching election news on TV can help you feel informed and engaged. If you’re not careful, however, you may use media in unhealthy ways that make you feel worse. This training can help you implement healthy media consumption habits that don’t damage your mental and physical well-being. 

 

Workshop Objectives:

This training will help you:
• Describe how media consumption may impact your mental and physical health
• Consider whether your media consumption habits could be making you feel worse
• Change the way you consume media so that you can avoid negative consequences
• Participate in social media in ways that minimize exposure to cyber-bullying and other negative behaviors
• Anticipate cognitive distortions such as “catastrophizing” and “FOMO” (Fear Of Missing Out), and develop ways to overcome them.

 

Click on Carolina Talent registration link and select the “Request” button to automatically enroll.

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