This chapter explores how therapy culture and counseling services affect individuals from all social backgrounds, shedding light on the implications of focusing on social-emotional skills and trauma for lower-income families. It challenges the idea of therapy being exclusive to the wealthy by discussing the damaging consequences, especially for vulnerable children. The conversation delves into the normalization of mental health issues, bias introduction, and the communicability of anxiety within families.
Could it be possible that the boom in therapy for young people is harming, not helping, the next generation? UnHerd's Florence Read spoke to the author of a new book 'Bad Therapy', Abigail Shrier, about mental health myths, gentle parenting and the medicalisation of American kids.
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