Social Media and Mental Health

Professor Allan House is a psychiatrist who has practised for many years at consultant level within the NHS. Now retired from clinical practice he researches as a senior academic at the University of Leeds. He has co-authored a number of introductory texts for non-specialists. Dr Cathy Brennan worked as a children's nurse before pursuing an academic career as a social scientist. Her research focuses on public mental health, particularly social media and its relationship with self-harm and suicide. She is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and teaches at the University of Leeds.

Part I. General principles: 1. Introducing social media Ysabel Gerrard; 2. The legal and ethical status of social media Jon Fistein; 3. Social media: an everyday reality David A. Ellis; 4. How social media influence group and individual behaviour: practice implications Jeff French and Melissa Blair; 5. Researching social media: qualitative research approaches Cathy Brennan, Kim Heyes and David A. Ellis; 6. Researching social media: quantitative methods Allan House; Part II. Social media and mental health: 7. The harms and benefits of social media use Maša Popovac, Philip A. Fine and Sally-Ann Hicken; 8. Social media and disorders of mood Allan House; 9. Social media, body image, eating disorders Rachel Rodgers and Katherine Laveway; 10. Social media and gambling Thomas B Swanton, Sascha Callaghan, Nicola C Newton, Vladan Starcevic and Sally M. Gainsbury; 11. Social media, self-harm and suicide Cathy Brennan and Allan House; Part III. Social media as resource: 12. Safely navigating the terrain: keeping young people safe online Jo Robinson, Louise La. Sala and Rikki Battersby-Coulter; 13. Technological interventions for adolescent mental health Arjuna Ugarte, Renee Garett and Sean D. Young; 14. Online outreach and support provision: an empirically-informed approach and case illustration Stephen P. Lewis.