The National Mental Health Commission is seeking to deepen the conversation around digital technologies and mental health to better understand what parts of technology use are helpful or harmful.

Where digital technologies simultaneously present opportunities and challenges, we are working on recommendations that maximise potential benefits and minimise potential harms for young people.

A wide range of factors are thought to affect whether digital technology use has a positive, neutral, or negative impact on mental health.

To prompt discussion, youth advisory and expert groups have provided input to this discussion paper on relevant topics.