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| Behaviorally Based Approaches to Addressing Cell Phone Use, Misuse, Abuse, and Overuse: A Teenager's Perspective of What Works and Doesn't |
| Monday, May 30, 2022 |
| 3:00 PM–3:25 PM |
| Meeting Level 1; Room 104A |
| Area: CBM |
| Instruction Level: Basic |
| Chair: Emily Cook (Bishop McDevitt High School Harrisburg, PA) |
| CE Instructor: Richard Cook, M.D. |
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Behaviorally Based Approaches to Addressing Cell Phone Use, Misuse, Abuse, and Overuse: A Teenager's Perspective of What Works and Doesn't |
| Domain: Service Delivery |
| Matthew Gross (Shippensburg University), EMILY COOK (Bishop McDevitt High School
Harrisburg, PA), Richard Cook (Applied Behavior Medicine Associates of Hershey) |
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| Abstract: While cell phones have become an essential part of teenage life, even expected by teachers. They are a vehicle of wasted time, social stressors, and distraction, but are also essential for needed family communication , studying for tests, and completing homework. Standard behavioral and public health principles and techniques can be used in a methodical fashion to help the teenager develop habits to better self regulate usage. This presentation highlights use of behavioral momentum, successive approximations, differential reinforcement, token economies, the Premack principle, basic reinforcement and punishment, as well a public health fundamental that the most effective interventions are those which require the least amount of effort on the part of the targeted individual |
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| Target Audience: Basic |
| Learning Objectives: At the conclusion of the presentation, participants will be able to: 1.articulate advantages of teen cell phone use and note behaviors of site selection and patterns of usage to which the teen can develop a habit of emitting 2. articulate reasons to NOT threaten to take cell phone away from teen 3. outline key discussion points and lead a discussion with a teenager regarding development of habits cell phone use behavior that are healthy, safe, and productive, and still relevant to the reality of patterns of teenage cell phone use |
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