Deconstructing Scandinavia's "Achievement Generation"

A Youth Mental Health Crisis?

AvOle Jacob Madsen

Inbunden, Engelska, 2021

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In this book, Professor Ole Jacob Madsen analyses the implications of Scandinavia's current concern for the mental health problems of adolescents, said to be struggling in the face of increasing demands for achievement and success.

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Utgivningsdatum:2021-04-13
Mått:148 x 210 x 22 mm
Vikt:513 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:300
Förlag:Springer Nature Switzerland AG
ISBN:9783030725549
Översättare:Oatley, Diane

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Ole Jacob Madsen is Professor of Cultural and Community Psychology at the University of Oslo, Norway. His previous works include: The Therapeutic Turn: How Psychology Altered Western Culture (2014), Optimizing the Self: Social Representations of Self-Help (2015) and The Psychologization of Society: On the Unfolding of the Therapeutic in Norway (2018) and The Routledge International Handbook of Global Therapeutic Cultures (2020).

Innehållsförteckning

Chapter 1 - Introduction.- Chapter 2 - The Pathologies of Modernity.- Chapter 3 - The Pathologies of Late Modernity.- Chapter 4 - Young, privileged and sick.- Chapter 5 - Youth under pressure.- Chapter 6 - Social representations.- Chapter 7 - Self-fulfilling prophecies.- Chapter 8 - The Paradox of Health.- Chapter 9 - Conclusion.