Description: From New York Times bestselling coauthor of The Coddling of the American Mind, an essential investigation into the collapse of youth mental health--and a plan for a healthier, freer childhood After more than a decade of stability or improvement, the mental health of adolescents plunged in the early 2010s. Rates of depression, anxiety, self-harm, and suicide rose sharply, more than doubling on most measures. Why? In The Anxious Generation, social psychologist Jonathan Haidt lays out the facts about the epidemic of teen mental illness that hit many countries at the same time. He then investigates the nature of childhood, including why children need play and independent exploration to mature into competent, thriving adults. Haidt shows how the "pla Book and Mortar Record Store The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness -- Jonathan Haidt From New York Times bestselling coauthor of The Coddling of the American Mind, an essential investigation into the collapse of youth mental health--and a plan for a healthier, freer childhood After more than a decade of stability or improvement, the mental health of adolescents plunged in the early 2010s. Rates of depression, anxiety, self-harm, and suicide rose sharply, more than doubling on most measures. Why? In The Anxious Generation, social psychologist Jonathan Haidt lays out the facts about the epidemic of teen mental illness that hit many countries at the same time. He then investigates the nature of childhood, including why children need play and independent exploration to mature into competent, thriving adults. Haidt shows how the "play-based childhood" began to decline in the 1980s, and how it was finally wiped out by the arrival of the "phone-based childhood" in the early 2010s. He presents more than a dozen mechanisms by which this "great rewiring of childhood" has interfered with children's social and neurological development, covering everything from sleep deprivation to attention fragmentation, addiction, loneliness, social contagion, social comparison, and perfectionism. He explains why social media damages girls more than boys and why boys have been withdrawing from the real world into the virtual world, with disastrous consequences for themselves, their families, and their societies. Most important, Haidt issues a clear call to action. He diagnoses the "collective action problems" that trap us, and then proposes four simple rules that might set us free. He describes steps that parents, teachers, schools, tech companies, and governments can take to end the epidemic of mental illness and restore a more humane childhood. Haidt has spent his career speaking truth backed by data in the most difficult landscapes--communities polarized by politics and religion, campuses battling culture wars, and now the public health emergency faced by Gen Z. We cannot afford to ignore his findings about protecting our children--and ourselves--from the psychological damage of a phone-based life. Author: Jonathan Haidt Publisher: Penguin Press Published: 03/26/2024 Pages: 400 Binding Type: Hardcover Weight: 1.38lbs Size: 9.47h x 6.47w x 1.30d ISBN: 9780593655030 Review Citation(s): Library Journal 10/01/2023 pg. 25 Booklist 03/01/2024 pg. 3 About the Author Jonathan Haidt is the Thomas Cooley Professor of Ethical Leadership at New York University's Stern School of Business. He obtained his PhD in social psychology from the University of Pennsylvania in 1992 and taught at the University of Virginia for sixteen years. His research focuses on moral and political psychology, as described in his book The Righteous Mind. His latest book, The Anxious Generation, is a direct continuation of the themes explored in The Coddling of the American Mind (written with Greg Lukianoff). He writes the After Babel Substack.
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Book Title: The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Ca
Genre: Books, Subjects, Self-Help, Stress Management
Genre 1: Books,Subjects,Self-Help,Stress Management
Label: Penguin Press
Artist: Haidt, Jonathan
Album: The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Ca
Number of Pages: 400 Pages
Publication Name: Anxious Generation : How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness
Language: English
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication Year: 2024
Item Height: 1.2 in
Subject: Children's Studies, Web / Social Media, Social Aspects / General, Developmental / Child, Mental Health, Life Stages / Teenagers, Self-Management / Stress Management
Item Weight: 22 Oz
Type: Textbook
Item Length: 9.6 in
Subject Area: Family & Relationships, Computers, Social Science, Self-Help, Psychology
Author: Jonathan Haidt
Item Width: 6.5 in
Format: Hardcover
