Description
| Product ID: | 9781032445120 |
| Product Form: | Hardback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Series: | Routledge Focus on Mental Health |
| Title: | Life Skills and Adolescent Mental Health |
| Subtitle: | Can Kids Be Taught to Master Life? |
| Authors: | Author: Ole Jacob Madsen |
| Page Count: | 98 |
| Subjects: | Social counselling and advice services, Counselling & advice services, Psychological theory, systems, schools and viewpoints, Social, group or collective psychology, Philosophy and theory of education, Educational psychology, Teaching of a specific subject, Psychotherapy, Psychological theory & schools of thought, Social, group or collective psychology, Philosophy & theory of education, Educational psychology, Teaching of a specific subject, Psychotherapy |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating 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. 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. The book, one of the first to question ‘life mastery’ as an achievable goal with critical reviews of the 21st century skills movement, will be of interest to psychologists, school counsellors, teachers, students, politicians, and any reader evaluating school curriculums in relation to the decline in youth and adolescent mental health. The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons [Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND)] 4.0 license. |
| Imprint Name: | Routledge |
| Publisher Name: | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2023-05-24 |
