Talking to Children About Mental Health: The challenges facing Gen Z and Gen Alpha and how you can help

by Lily-Jo

Publisher:

SPCK Publishing

, 2023

A practical guide to help adults understand the unique mental health challenges facing our children, teenagers and students today.

From the rise of AI personal technology to the ability to connect to your loved ones wherever you are, you’d think that we’re advancing as a society. But for our young people’s mental health such progress has come at a cost.

The book examines the key mental health problems impacting young people today (such as depression, loneliness and anxiety) and explains how the lifestyle, culture and world they are living in has a significant mental health impact.

Suitable for parents, grandparents, teachers, youth workers and anyone in a position of care or interested in the future of mental health, this book offers tools, exercises and resources to support the next generation.

Contents

Contents

About the author iv

Introduction: You need to know 1

1 Generation AO: Loneliness and life lived online 10

2 Anxiety gone viral: Anxiety and cancel culture in Gen Z 24

3 Pandemic pressure: Post-pandemic stress disorder 42

4 Bodies made digital: Self-esteem and self-harm 59

5 Depression in a dying world: Suicide and climate anxiety 74

6 Global grief: Political turbulence and understanding grief 95

7 Fear in the fluid generation: Mental health and being LGBTQ+ 110

Summary: Keeping up in a changing world 125

Acknowledgements 137

Notes 139

Select bibliography and further reading 152

Product Details

• Title: Talking to Children About Mental Health: The challenges facing Gen Z and Gen Alpha and how you can help
• Author: Lily-Jo
• Publisher: SPCK Publishing
• Print Publication Date: 2023
• Logos Release Date: 2022
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Ebook
• ISBNs: 9780281087839, 9780281087822, 0281087822, 0281087830
• Resource ID: LLS:9780281087839
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2024-05-02T17:39:33Z