Life skills and adolescent mental health can kids be taught to master life? / Ole Jacob Madsen.

Author/creator Madsen, Ole Jacob, 1978-
Format Electronic
EditionFirst English edition.
Publication InfoNew York, NY : Routledge, 2024.
Descriptionpages cm.
Supplemental ContentFull text available from Taylor & Francis eBooks
Subjects

Uniform titleLivsferdigheter og ungdommens psykiske helse. English
SeriesRoutledge focus on mental health
Abstract "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"-- Provided by publisher.
General noteFirst Norwegian edition published by Spartacus 2020.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Access restrictionAvailable only to authorized users.
Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2023011939
ISBN9781032445120 (hardback)
ISBN9781032445144 (paperback)
ISBN(ebook)

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