Adult Book of the MonthThe Anxious Generation
After over a decade of stability or improvement, the mental health of adolescents in many countries deteriorated sharply in the early 2010s. Why have rates of depression, anxiety, self-harm, and suicide more than doubled in many cases? In this book, social psychologist Jonathan Haidt argues that the decline of free play in childhood and the rise of smartphone usage among adolescents are the twin sources of increased mental distress among teenagers.