Is there a teenage mental health crisis?

Ashley Fawley has written extensively about therapy culture and the shifting boundaries between mental illness and normal emotion. Her most recent book is Significant Emotions (2023) and she is a Visiting Researcher with CPCS at the University of Kent. Matilda Gosling is a social scientist and independent researcher with more than 20 years’ experience, including 12 years running an international social research consultancy. Her work covers education, skills and child development, as well as social psychology and analysis of belief systems. She is the author of Evidence-Based Parenting (2024), and Teenagers: The Evidence Base, in which she addresses the climate in which mental health conditions start to flourish, will be published in 2025.

Background Reading:

https://www.matildagosling.com/

https://blogs.kent.ac.uk/parentingculturestudies/about/visiting-fellows/

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/13607804231215943

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