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The anxious generation how the great rewiring of childhood is causing an epidemic of mental illness
"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...
| Main Author: | Haidt, Jonathan (Author) |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Penguin Press, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC,
2024.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Growing up on Mars
- Part 1: A tidal wave
- The surge of suffering
- Part 2: The backstory: the decline of the play based childhood
- What children need to do in childhood
- Discover mode and the need for risky play
- Puberty and the blocked transition to adulthood
- Part 3: The great rewiring: the rise of the phone based childhood
- The four foundational harms: social deprivation, sleep deprivation, attention fragmentation, and addiction
- Why social media harms girls more than boys
- Part 4: Collective action for healthier childhood
- Preparing for collective action
- What governments and tech companies can do now
- What schools can do now
- What parents can do now
- Conclusion: Bring childhood back to Earth.