New York : Penguin Press, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, 2024.
Format
Book
Language
English
ISBN
9780593655030, 0593655036
Notes
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description
After more than a decade of stability or improvement, the mental health of adolescents plunged in the early 2010s, with rates of depression, anxiety, self-harm, and suicide rising sharply. The author lays out the facts about the epidemic of teen mental illness that hit many countries at the same time, and then investigates the nature of childhood, including why children need play and independent exploration to mature into competent, thriving adults. He presents more than a dozen mechanisms by which this 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. 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.
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
What is happening to boys?
Spiritual elevation and degradation. (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. Acknowledgments
Haidt, J. (2024). The anxious generation: how the great rewiring of childhood is causing an epidemic of mental illness
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Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition(style guide)
Haidt, Jonathan. 2024. The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness.
New York: Penguin Press, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition(style guide)
Haidt, Jonathan. The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness
New York: Penguin Press, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, 2024.
Haidt, J. (2024). The anxious generation: how the great rewiring of childhood is causing an epidemic of mental illness.
New York: Penguin Press, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC.
Haidt, Jonathan. The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness
Penguin Press, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, 2024.
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