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Digital Adolescence is a research-backed training curriculum for parents, educators, and teens, covering smartphones, social media, AI, and adolescent development.

Taught as science rather than panic, by a clinician who sits with teenagers every week.

220+ research sourcesLiving evidence libraryClinician-developedBuilt for real-world use
The curriculum

Twelve modules, each built to answer one question.

The product

One curriculum. Three ways to use it.

Parent track

The evening series

  • Four 90-minute sessions, or a one-day briefing
  • Conversation scripts you can adapt
  • A family media plan built together, not imposed
  • One evidence-backed change to try each week
For parents →
Educator track

The professional training

  • Six sessions: in-service day or PL cohort
  • Incident-response protocol for the bad day
  • AI-integrity and phone-policy design tools
  • A working artifact for your actual school
For educators →
Teen track

Made for them, not about them

  • Six 45-minute sessions for classrooms or groups
  • Self-experiments they run on their own lives
  • Digital self-management, taught without preaching
  • Launching after independent safeguarding review
For teens →
The evidence

Every claim has a paper behind it.

This curriculum runs on a living evidence library, not a fixed bibliography. When the research moves, the course moves with it.

220+sources, each verified through at least two independent channels
A to Cevery source graded for reliability, advocacy never counted as evidence
Linkedoriginal papers cited by DOI or archival record wherever one exists
Honestcontested findings disclosed, retracted research kept visible and marked
Explore the evidence library →
About the author

Why I built this

Bryanna Ferguson

I'm Bryanna Ferguson, a clinical counselor, consultant, and the mom of an adolescent myself. My practice, Duty of Care by Design, studies relational harm and artificial intimacy in conversational AI.

This research began when I went looking for training on how technology shapes adolescent development. I couldn't find a dedicated curriculum, so I built it.

Care that leads somewhere real always comes from a person.

  • Clinician-developed, grounded in weekly work with adolescents
  • Transparent methodology: every source graded, originals linked
  • Contested findings named as contested, never smoothed over
  • Teen track launches only after independent safeguarding review
  • Evidence re-verified on a scheduled cycle as research moves
Next step

Bring this to your school, practice, or family.

Schools & districtsBring the educator track to an in-service day or PL cohort, or run the teen track after review.
OrganizationsLicense the curriculum for parent education, counseling, or youth programs.
Clinicians & practicesAdd evidence-based digital-development education to your work with families.
ParentsAsk about the founding parent cohort and upcoming evening series.

Tell me who you are and what you're hoping to build, and I'll send the right materials, including the full curriculum prospectus.

Prefer email? Write to info@digitaladolescence.com.