ABSTRACT

The social significance of digital media and technology is incontestable, particularly with youth. While digital media use can offer youth in residential treatment (RT) opportunities, it also carries risks. Although there has been a shift in RT from a model fostering isolated, self-contained settings, toward the promotion of family and community integration, there is a dearth of scholarship addressing youth digital media use in RT. To address the gaps in research on digital media use among youth in RT and the absence of system-wide policies and formal consensus on guidelines for addressing the issue, the findings of the current study offer insight into the experiences of 25 service providers from four programs. The findings highlight that regardless of location or treatment approach, RT is addressing youth digital media use. There exists a continuum of approaches ranging from risk prevention to risk resilience. As social media have made prohibiting contact between youth impossible, digital media use has been a catalyst for programs to attend to youth relationships outside of the programs. Digital media have thus both introduced new challenges to supporting youth and facilitated a more contemporary resilience-oriented and ecologically informed the approach to treatment.

摘要

数字媒体和技术的社会意义是无可争议的，尤其是对于年轻人而言。尽管数字媒体的使用可以为青年人提供住院治疗（RT）的机会，但它也带来了风险。尽管RT已从建立孤立的，独立的环境的模型转变为促进家庭和社区融合的模式，但缺乏针对青少年在RT中使用数字媒体的奖学金。为解决RT青年对数字媒体使用的研究中的空白，以及缺乏用于解决该问题的系统范围的政策和正式共识的问题，本研究的结果提供了对四个计划中25家服务提供商的经验的深刻见解。研究结果表明，无论采用何种位置或治疗方法，RT都致力于解决青年数字媒体的使用问题。从风险预防到风险复原力，存在着一系列方法。由于社交媒体已经禁止禁止年轻人之间的接触，因此数字媒体的使用已成为促进节目参与节目以外的年轻人关系的催化剂。因此，数字媒体既为支持青年人带来了新的挑战，又促进了更加现代的以适应力为导向并以生态学为基础的治疗方法。