The Anxious Generation, by Johnathan Haidt

After over a decade of stability or improvement, adolescent mental health plunged in the early 2010s. Why did rates of depression, anxiety, self-harm, and suicide rise sharply?

Social psychologist Jonathan Haidt lays out the facts about the widespread teen mental health crisis. He investigates how play and independent exploration help children mature into competent, thriving adults. He shows the timeline of the decline of "play-based childhood" starting in the 80s and ending with the arrival of the "phone-based childhood" in the early 2010s. He explores how 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 also explains why social media damages girls more than boys and why boys have been withdrawing into the virtual world, with disastrous consequences for themselves, their families, and their societies.

He issues a clear call to action by diagnosing the "collective action problems" that trap us and proposing 4 simple rules that might set us free. He describes the steps that parents, teachers, schools, tech companies, and governments can take that can end the mental illness epidemic and restore a more humane childhood.

• The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness, by Johnathan Haidt
• 400 pages
• Hardcover
• ISBN: 9780593655030

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