Life Skills and Adolescent Mental Health
Ole Jacob Madsen, "Life Skills and Adolescent Mental Health "
English | ISBN: 1032445122 | 2023 | 118 pages | EPUB | 589 KB
English | ISBN: 1032445122 | 2023 | 118 pages | EPUB | 589 KB
Can school teach us to master life? This book confronts what the author sees as an ongoing trend in many Western democracies where citizens are increasingly being held accountable for their health and happiness.
The author believes that the introduction of life skills in school shows a tendency to place more responsibility on the individual rather than address fundamental societal flaws that really should be solved politically. It examines how such responsibility to psychologically deal with these problems affects our mental health and quality of life. This book questions the fundamentals of the life mastery curriculum where we might be risking the creation of just another arena where children have to perform, challenging readers to evaluate more closely the premises, consequences and limitations of life mastery.
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