Summit on social media, mental health at UST

The University of Santo Tomas (UST) will hold "LinkEd 2.0: A Social Media in Education Summit" from Jan. 22 to 24 at the UST Tan Yan Kee Student Center. Speakers are physician, blogger, and media influencer Ma. Gia B. Sison, M.D.; UST psychologist Ma. Claudette A. Agnes, Ph.D., Psychologist and Psychometrician Renz Christian Argao, The Youth for Mental Health Coalition Inc. founder and national chair Raymond John Naguit, M.D., Lyceum of the Philippines University guidance director Carolyn Quiba, and De La Salle St. Benilde Student Involvement Head Leandro Loyola. Conference topics include: Social Media and Mental Health, Mental Health and the Curriculum, Teachers’ Roles in Students’ Mental Health, How Social Media Mobilizes Advocacies, Developing a Mental HealthFriendly Campus, and Social Media and Student Affairs. The conference, organized by the UST Communications Bureau headed by Fr. Christopher Jeffrey L. Aytona, O.P., conference chair, will benefit administrators, faculty members, guidance counselors and other school practitioners who will learn from experts regarding mental health and student affairs, and how social media either help or hamper the promotion of the former. According to the organizers, “the summit aims to determine the possible link between social media and mental health considering the rising cases on mental health-related issues among adolescents, and the sustained massive use of social media, in order for schools to know how best to handle these new realities. The first LinkEd was held on Jan. 18 and 19, 2018 at the UST Paredes Building. It was called “LinkEd: The first social media in education summit.”