August Book Club: The Anxious Generation

Inspired by Positive Psychology titles but no time to read?

Join CAPPster Andrea Seydel each month for an unconventional approach to reading a book as a community. And take a deep dive into a Positive Psychology book of our community’s choice!

For August our community picked ‘The Anxious Generation,” by Jonathan Haidt.

Spend a month reading the book along side us or simply join the event on Monday, Aug. 19th from 7:30-9pm ET and have the book taught to you through lecture, lively discussion and breakout groups.

Access to this webinar is available only for CAPP students and alumni.

Learn more about Certificate in Applied Positive Psychology (CAPP) upcoming courses.

About The Anxious Generation

In The Anxious Generation, social psychologist Jonathan Haidt lays out the facts about the epidemic of teen mental illness that hit many countries at the same time. He then investigates the nature of childhood, including why children need play and independent exploration to mature into competent, thriving adults. Haidt shows how the “play-based childhood” began to decline in the 1980s, and how it was finally wiped out by the arrival of the “phone-based childhood” in the early 2010s. He presents more than a dozen mechanisms by which this “great rewiring of childhood” has interfered with children’s social and neurological development, covering everything from sleep deprivation to attention fragmentation, addiction, loneliness, social contagion, social comparison, and perfectionism. He explains why social media damages girls more than boys and why boys have been withdrawing from the real world into the virtual world, with disastrous consequences for themselves, their families, and their societies.