Jason Brand
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Jason Brand is a family therapist with extensive training and experience in new media and technology. In addition to his counseling practice, Jason is dedicated to helping families, schools, organizations and communities in their efforts to more thoughtfully integrate new technologies into the lives of young people. Jason writes about these issues for a wide range of publications, trains educators and clinicians and present at parent education events. In addition, Jason works with groups of kids in the consulting room and at schools with a focus on their social, emotional and health development in regard to screen activities. To find out more information about Jason you can visit his website - www.jasonbrandlcsw.com.

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The Digital Age Is the Wrong Time to Get Rid of Narcissistic Personality Disorder

Posted December 20, 2010 | 12:48:11 (EST)

This is the wrong moment to get rid of Narcissistic Personality Disorder (N.P.D.). To obliterate the line between pathological self-absorption and its healthier, more transient counterpart self-expression at a time when our identities have gone digital abandons the cultural moment and paints psychiatrists and psychotherapists as unwilling to come into...

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myPad or yourPad? -- What to Do When the Whole Family Screams for the iPad

Posted April 26, 2010 | 17:55:13 (EST)

Maybe instead of wondering if the iPad will change the world, we should focus on how it might change our households. Families are already reeling from the changes brought on by new technologies and the ways they have impacted our sense of privacy, manners and even the basic ways we...

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Digital Convergence and Your Family

Posted April 12, 2010 | 12:33:33 (EST)

It's all coming together. The phone takes pictures, video game systems connect to the internet and social network sites have chat features and more video games. Even television, the one place that has somehow remained disconnected and just for watching, will soon be transformed to have all the features of...

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How Can Adults Improve Social Networking Sites for Kids?

Posted April 5, 2010 | 19:30:48 (EST)

I was recently interviewed by a local high school student named Julian for his research project about the impact of social network sites on society. I always enjoy being interviewed by teens and end up learning something in the process. Julian asked a question that I have been thinking about...

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