Mind the Children

<p><strong style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>Why are so many children and teens today struggling with depression anxiety and other mental health challenges and who or what is to blame?</strong><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)> </span><em style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>Mind the Children</em><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)> provides insight into the scale scope and causes of the youth mental health crisis. From the decline in family life and religious affiliation to the rise in marijuana use and the ubiquity of cell phones and other screens this book explores the cultural institutional and technological changes that are making kids' lives more difficult.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>Contributors to the book -journalists researchers and clinicians- address topics as varied as how schools may paradoxically worsen matters they are trying to address how political rhetoric may affect children's ability to cope with ordinary challenges and how to reverse the shortage of professionals available to help kids. </span><em style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>Mind the Children</em><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)> will help parents and policymakers gain a comprehensive understanding of a multifaceted problem which other experts have been too quick to trace to a single cause.</span></p>