Parents of teenage boys are being encouraged to help their sons practice emotional regulation and vulnerability to support youth mental health.

Social media algorithms are promoting increasingly negatively-charged content, leaving many teenagers exposed to toxic online culture, unrealistic gender standards and distressing material.

Content on social media platforms takes advantage of children's normal curiosities, child and adolescent psychologist Breanna Jayne Sada told AAP.

"It's developmentally appropriate to be curious … but the way the social media algorithm works is that there is extreme content being presented around toxic masculinity culture," she said.

"Boys in particular may not be looking for this kind of content but it is often served to them and if children are rapidly exp

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