Anxious Generation How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing Mental Illness

Description: Menu Other Items Feedbacks About Us Contact Us Add To Favorites Anxious Generation How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing Mental Illness THE INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice From New York Times bestselling coauthor of The Coddling of the American Mind, an essential investigation into the collapse of youth mental health—and a plan for a healthier, freer childhood. “Erudite, engaging, combative, crusading.” —New York Times Book Review “Words that chill the parental heart… thanks to Mr. Haidt, we can glimpse the true horror of what happened not only in the U.S. but also elsewhere in the English-speaking world… lucid, memorable… galvanizing.” —Wall Street Journal "[An] important new book...The shift in kids’ energy and attention from the physical world to the virtual one, Haidt shows, has been catastrophic, especially for girls." —Michelle Goldberg, The New York Times 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 many 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. Item Specification Publisher Penguin Press (March 26, 2024) Dimensions 6.45 x 1.28 x 9.53 inches Item Weight 1.24 pounds Hardcover 400 pages ISBN-10 0593655036 ISBN-13 978-0593655030 Topic Mental Illness Format Hardcover Genre Health, Treatments & Medicine Publication Year Unknown Original Language English Dimensions Shipping Returns Additional Info Product Dimensions: 1.28 inches x 6.45 inches x 9.53 inches. Weight: 1.24 lb Fast shipping is very important for us. Our standard shipping service is FREE. Your order will be shipped within 1-3 business days upon full payment received. Most items are delivered within 3-5 business days, however, please allow 3-10 business days. We are shipping only to USA. We only ship to the confirmed Paypal address. We reserve the right to cancel any order for any reason at any time. We are not responsible for undeliverable addresses. We offer a 30 day return policy from checkout winning date. Your satisfaction is guaranteed! If for any reason you are unhappy with your item, just return it within 30 days for a full refund, minus shipping cost. Please contact us prior to initiating a return so that we can issue you a refund authorization. Items defective upon receipt must be packaged in their retail packaging as if new and returned with a detailed description of the problem. Return shipping fees are not refundable. We reserve the right to decline any returns if the above guidelines are not followed. All of our items, unless otherwise stated, will only run on 120 volts. Please check to make sure your country complies with these specifications. If you have a problem or question regarding your transaction please contact us before leaving any type of feedback. We will work with you to resolve any problem you may have.

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