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Digital media, gaming and cyberbullying OSCE — screening, the function filter and a safeguarding exit
Observed structured encounter testing non-judgemental digital-media screening, the function filter, motivational-interviewing brief intervention, and recognition of the safeguarding exit for cyberbullying-suicidality and online exploitation.
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RACP General PaediatricsRACP DCEMRCPCH ClinicalRCPSC Pediatrics
Prompt
Station A is a private digital-media assessment with a 14-year-old whose school attendance has declined amid daily group-chat bullying. Station B is a disclosure of online grooming progressing to demands for images, requiring a safeguarding response.
Station objectives
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Secure time alone and state conditional confidentiality with its limits. [1] [3]
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Screen the four digital-media exposures using normalised, non-judgemental questions. [1]
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Apply the function filter and the content-contact-conduct-compulsion frame. [3]
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Recognise and act on the safeguarding exit for cyberbullying-suicidality and online exploitation. [2] [4]
References7ShowHide
- [1]Council on Communications and Media Media Use in School-Aged Children and Adolescents. Pediatrics, 2016.PMID 27940794
- [2]John A, Glendenning AC, Marchant A, Montgomery P, Stewart A, Wood S, Lloyd K, Hawton K Self-Harm, Suicidal Behaviours, and Cyberbullying in Children and Young People: Systematic Review. Journal of medical Internet research, 2018.PMID 29674305
- [3]Odgers CL, Jensen MR Annual Research Review: Adolescent mental health in the digital age: facts, fears, and future directions. Journal of child psychology and psychiatry, and allied disciplines, 2020.PMID 31951670
- [4]Greene-Colozzi EA, Winters GM, Blasko B, Jeglic EL Experiences and Perceptions of Online Sexual Solicitation and Grooming of Minors: A Retrospective Report. Journal of child sexual abuse, 2020.PMID 33017275
- [5]Livingstone S, Smith PK Annual research review: Harms experienced by child users of online and mobile technologies: the nature, prevalence and management of sexual and aggressive risks in the digital age. Journal of child psychology and psychiatry, and allied disciplines, 2014.PMID 24438579
- [6]Schneider LA, King DL, Delfabbro PH Family factors in adolescent problematic Internet gaming: A systematic review. Journal of behavioral addictions, 2017.PMID 28762279
- [7]Selkie EM, Fales JL, Moreno MA Cyberbullying Prevalence Among US Middle and High School-Aged Adolescents: A Systematic Review and Quality Assessment. The Journal of adolescent health : official publication of the Society for Adolescent Medicine, 2016.PMID 26576821