The Philippine Psychiatric Association (PPA) welcomes the opportunity to serve as a resource in the Committees’ deliberation on measures regulating children’s use of mobile devices and electronic gadgets in schools, at home, and in the community. Parents, teachers, and school administrators are navigating a digital environment with no precedent in prior generations, and are asking for clearer guidance and stronger safeguards.
The PPA position paper draws on child and adolescent psychiatry, together with local and international research, to offer a clinical and developmental perspective. It is intended to support the Committees, the Department of Education (DepEd), the Commission on Higher Education (CHED), the Department of Health (DOH), the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG), Local Government Units (LGUs), schools, and families in shaping regulation that protects children and is workable in practice.
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