The Department of Educational and Psychological Sciences at the Faculty of Education for Human Sciences at the University of Basra organized a seminar on teenagers and the use of the Internet and how to help parents face these risks.
The seminar aimed to educate parents on how to guide their teenage children to use the Internet in the right way, and ways to reduce its psychological and health harms.
The seminar, presented by teacher Ibtihal Farhan Khalifa, showed the negative effects that result from the use of the Internet with free access to this network and spending long hours on sites that affect teenagers' concepts, morals and ideas far from society's values and traditions, as well as the psychological effects that amount to addiction, which leads to serious symptoms such as stress, depression, anxiety, aggression, low academic level, and health and social effects.
The seminar recommended several recommendations to address the negative use of the Internet, such as keeping teenagers busy with sports or encouraging them to read, setting times for playing online games, as well as following up and monitoring teenagers, discussing their issues and working to solve them.
