A Music and Visual Arts Digital Intervention in Teenagers to Promote Healthy Engagement With Social Media.

"Participants in this group will complete two 1-hour music composition training intervention sessions per week over the course of 3 months (24 sessions total). These sessions will take place in the participating schools\' premises, during normal hours corresponding to their advisory period class; or in participating centers during extracurricular activities' periods.~The curriculum for these music composition lessons has been developed specifically for this project, in collaboration and based on the educational music composition programs from the American Composers Orchestra (ACO).~Lessons review basic structural musical concepts, practicing active listening and music appreciation skills, teaching about the use of music-composition specific software (i.e., Soundtrap), and helping the students in expressing themselves / their identity through music, learning about musical story-telling through the creation of their own musical pieces from scratch."

"Participants in this group will complete two 1-hour photography/visual-arts composition/edition intervention sessions per week over the course of 3 months (24 sessions total). These sessions will take place in the participating schools\' premises, during normal hours corresponding to their advisory period class; or in participating centers during extracurricular activities' periods.~The curriculum for these photography composition lessons has been developed specifically for this project, in collaboration and based on educational photography/film programs from Downtown Community TV Center (DCTV).~Lessons review basic structural photography/visual-arts concepts, practicing visual-arts appreciation skills, teaching about the use of photography edition specific software (i.e., Photoshop), and helping the students in expressing themselves/their identity through photography, learning about visual story-telling through the creation of their own photographical projects from scratch."