S4 Ep 5 Best Friend Therapy: Teenagers - How can we help our teens? What kind of teen were you? Why is defiance essential to development?
Dial Emma
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The Epidemic of Self-Harm in Teenagers
I'm also aware that we're living through an epidemic of self-harm with our teenagers. I gave a talk last week to a girls an all girls school and it was an amazing experience phenomenally like bright interested students who asked some of the best questions I've ever been asked. One of them was how do you discover your authentic self when we live in a capitalist society that's trying to set our stuff to make us feel better. It got worse during the pandemic because they hadn't been coming into school that much and obviously at all because it was locked down. The thing that's really taken over and taken hold of our students very sadly is self harm, she says.
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