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From Screen to Teen: Evaluating the Impact of the New AI Virtual Environment on Teen Mental Health - 1.5 CE hours
Tuesday July 14, 2026 12:50pm - 2:10pm CDT
303 AB
Objectives:
  1. Audience members will learn about the world of AI apps, games, chat rooms and programs, including how youth are currently engaging with these platforms. This includes AI character games, AI therapy apps, and AI search engines. They will better understand how these programs potentially interact with a teen's social and emotional development.
  2. Audience members will learn the current research on AI platforms and their effect on developmental and mental health outcomes, including dangerous AI interactions, the creation of harmful stigma, and a need for more research on effects.
  3. Audience members will gain practical skills to assess and address a teens online experience. The workshop will provide ready-to-use talking points, questions, and activities to facilitate interventions and conversations with teens.

    Statement of need:
    A critical environmental influence on teen mental health—their interaction with apps and AI—is being overlooked due to lack of awareness. It is currently unscreened in our intakes, absent from treatment plans, and missing from our clinical conversations.

    Abstract:
    Teens are interacting with AI and the virtual world in more ways than just getting answers for their homework assignments. Every professional or adult that works with teens should understand how new AI apps and the virtual world interact with a youth’s social and emotional development. This training exists because harmful virtual and AI experiences are happening, and we haven’t been trained on how to screen for them. Audience members will be taught how to address this new virtual environment in their evaluations, and in everyday conversations with teens. They will learn how assessing a youth’s virtual environment will create more relevant, effective, and tailored treatment for our youth. This workshop will include virtual and Ai experiences, stories, case studies, and ready-to-use skills to take home and use with teens.

Speakers
avatar for Leanne Foell, LCSW

Leanne Foell, LCSW

Licensed Clinical Social Worker
Leanne is a licensed clinical social worker who practices mental health therapy with teens in Dallas Texas. Leanne has worked with teens in almost every place you can find them, this includes high schools, juvenile detention centers, inpatient behavioral hospitals, pediatric centers... Read More →
Tuesday July 14, 2026 12:50pm - 2:10pm CDT
303 AB
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