Looking After Yourself | Online Training
Social media is a great way to contact celebrities and catch up with friends. And where else could you share pictures of your lunch, see a bunch of pictures featuring snakes wearing hats, or laugh along with the latest hilarious memes? But being a social media butterfly can also be very damaging for young people. Feeling like they need to keep up with the amazing lives of ‘beautiful’ people can put big pressure on their self-image, leading to some pretty serious consequences.
• Describe how social media can impact you negatively • Understand the difference between perception and reality• Explain how to prevent children from becoming negatively influenced by social media
This course, a key part of personal wellbeing, explores how social media can impact negatively on young people, and the difference between perception and reality. It also has some useful advice on how to prevent children becoming negatively influenced.
This online training course has been designed to help young people, but can be taken by anyone. It’s useful for those who use social media as well as those who want to offer mental health support to others who do.
Everyone has the right to learn and learner need can vary demanding on environment or disabilities. This course comes with transcripts so people have text options for an media, subtitles for all videos and is screen reader friendly with alternative text.We take a number of steps to ensure visuals and navigation is easy for your people. For more information on the steps we take for accessibility check out how we make our courses.
