BAD THERAPY

From the author of Irreversible Damage an investigation into how mental health overdiagnosis is harming not helping children A pacy no holds barred attack on mental health professionals and parenting experts thought provoking Financial Times A message that parents teachers mental health professionals and policymakers need to hear New StatesmanIn virtually every way that can be measured Gen Z s mental health is worse than that of previous generations Youth suicide rates are climbing antidepressant prescriptions for children are common and the proliferation of mental health diagnoses has not helped the staggering number of kids who are lonely lost sad and fearful of growing up What s gone wrong In Bad Therapy bestselling investigative journalist Abigail Shrier argues that the problem isn t the kids it s the mental health experts Drawing on hundreds of interviews with child psychologists parents teachers and young people themselves Shrier explores the ways the mental health industry has transformed the way we teach treat discipline and even talk to our kids She reveals that most of the therapeutic approaches have serious side effects and few proven benefits for instance talk therapy can induce rumination trapping children in cycles of anxie