{"id":347909,"date":"2025-12-14T08:35:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T08:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/347909\/"},"modified":"2025-12-14T08:35:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T08:35:08","slug":"ut-health-east-texas-child-psychiatrist-weighs-in-on-australias-under-16-social-media-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/347909\/","title":{"rendered":"UT Health East Texas child psychiatrist weighs in on Australia\u2019s under-16 social media ban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">TYLER, Texas (KLTV) &#8211; As Australia welcomed the world-first social media ban for children younger than 16 on Wednesday, a UT Health East Texas child and adolescent psychiatrist weighed in on the ban.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">UT Health East Texas child and adolescent psychiatrist Tiya Johnson, M.D., shared her thoughts on the ban and why social media can have negative effects on teens\u2019 mental health.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cMy first thought when I heard about this law was good for them, this is a start because again as a child psychologist we\u2019re seeing the issues with mental health to not just social media but to technology in general,\u201d Johnson said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Johnson explained that it isn\u2019t just social media affecting teens.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cWhile I do agree that social media affects teens and their mental health, I also believe clinically that it\u2019s not just social media but it\u2019s the widespread use of technology in general,\u201d Johnson said. <\/p>\n<p>UT Health child psychiatrist weighs in on Australia\u2019s under-16 social media ban<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2025 KLTV. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TYLER, Texas (KLTV) &#8211; As Australia welcomed the world-first social media ban for children younger than 16 on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":347910,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[97,259,260,173649,18858],"class_list":["post-347909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mental-health","tag-health","tag-mental-health","tag-mentalhealth","tag-smith-county","tag-tyler"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=347909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347909\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/347910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}