Course Description:

Participants will be able to

1. define: Instant Gratification, Peer Recommendation, Compulsion Loop, Isolation, Addiction.

2. understand the correlation between social media usage and dopamine rewards and its’ correlation to addiction with other substances and addictive behaviors.

3. understand how social media is used as a persuasion tool, how artificial intelligence and other manipulations of metadata distort outcomes, and how social media companies profit from it.

4. have an understanding of how to safeguard themselves and others from this attention economy and how to keep themselves healthier and safer.

5. empowered and know how to make changes, using social media to stand up against the system currently in place, and how to advocate for their clients.

Course Link: 
https://forms.gle/ZZgYrCLpcNcxhboV6

CE Value (credits): 2
CE Type: Standard

Sponsor Name:
Havenwyck Hospital

Contact Information:
Michelle Ciaramellano
630-253-0638
michelle.ciaramellano@uhsinc.com

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