Bad therapy review: Is mental health industry fuelling youth crisis?

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Bad therapy review: Is mental health industry fuelling youth crisis?

Father and daughter sitting at kitchen table near window in discussion

“Gentle parenting” may be creating the very problems it is aiming to prevent

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Bad Therapy
Abigail Shrier (Swift Press)

MUCH has been written about rising rates of mental health problems in children and teenagers, particularly in the US, with many possible explanations proposed. In Bad Therapy: Why the kids aren’t growing up, US journalist Abigail Shrier offers a bold hypothesis: this crisis is being perpetuated by the very measures supposed to counter it – used by families, schools and, especially, professionals.

For Shrier, the problems start with the many ways modern child-rearing…



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