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040 _aNU FAIRVIEW
_cNU FAIRVIEW
050 _aHQ 792 H35 2024
100 _aHaidt, Jonathan
_eauthor.
245 _aThe Anxious Generation :
_bHow the Great Rewiring of Childhood is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness /
_cJonathan Haidt.
260 _aNew York. New York :
_bPenguin Random House, LLC.,
_cc2024
300 _a385 pages ;
_bIllustration,
_c25 cm.
365 _b1680.00
504 _aIncludes Notes, References, Index.
505 _aPart 1: A Tidal Wave -- Part 2: The Backstory : The Decline of the Play-Based Childhood -- Part 3: The Great Rewiring : The Rise of the Phone-Based Childhood -- Part 4: Collective Action For Healthier Childhood -- .
520 _a"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"
650 _2CHILDREN -- UNITED STATES -- SOCIAL CONDITIONS -- 21ST CENTURY.
650 _2INTERNET AND CHILDREN -- UNITED STATES.
650 _2SOCIAL MEDIA -- PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECTS.
650 _2CHILD MENTAL HEALTH -- UNITED STATES.
650 _2CHILD DEVELOPMENT -- UNITED STATES.
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