The provision of social emotional skills and counseling staff in public schools impacts lower-income families the most. While such initiatives may begin as trends among affluent classes, they eventually affect disadvantaged families significantly. For children facing adversity and poverty, being labeled as traumatized can be debilitating, as it lowers expectations of their potential achievement, contrasting with the encouragement they need.
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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