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NIH publication volume no. 21-MH-8085
Publisher
National Institute of Mental Health
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Publisher
Beacon Press
Language
English
Description
Lamenting risk-averse parents, over-structured school days, and a lack of playtime and solitude, Mercogliano argues that we are robbing our young people of "that precious, irreplaceable period in their lives that nature has set aside for exploration and innocent discovery, " leaving them ill-equipped to face adulthood. The "domestication of childhood" squeezes the adventure out of kids' lives and threatens to smother the spark that animates each child...
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Publisher
[Oublisher not identified]
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Without question, school counselors face increasingly complex and formidable challenges in their work with school-age children and their families, including an increased incidence and severity of mental health issues among school children (Auger, 2011; Merikangas, et al., 2011). Given this reality, as well as the privileged and pivotal position that school counselors hold as potential deliverers of front-line mental health services for school-age...
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster Canada
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Is my child okay? Is she eating and sleeping enough? Is he hanging out with the right people? Should I be worried that she spends all their time in her room? Is this just a phase? Or a sign of something serious? As parents, we worry about our children--about their physical health, performance at school, the types of friends they have, and of course, their mental health. Every day seems to bring new and expanding issues and disorders for parents to...
9) The anxious generation: how the great rewiring of childhood is causing an epidemic of mental illness
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Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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"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...
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Series
Violence prevention and policy volume 4
Publisher
AltaMira Press
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Sentinel, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
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"From the author of Irreversible Damage, an investigation into a mental health industry that is harming, not healing, American children In virtually every way that can be measured, Gen Z's mental health is worse than that of previous generations. Youth suicide rates are climbing, antidepressant prescriptions for children are common, and the proliferation of mental health diagnoses has not helped the staggering number of kids who are lonely, lost,...