02214cam a2200373 i 4500 1171998913 TxGeo 20240314120000.0 231214s2024||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2023056736 9780593655030 hbk. 0593655036 hbk. (OCoLC)1381441447 TxGeo rda Haidt, Jonathan, author. The anxious generation : how the great rewiring of childhood is causing an epidemic of mental illness / Jonathan Haidt. New York, NY : Penguin Press, 2024. 385 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references and index. "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 [this book], 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"-- Provided by publisher. 20240326. Generation Z Mental health. Children United States Social conditions 21st century. Internet and children United States. Social media Psychological aspects. Child mental health United States. Child development United States. QS5