Specifications
| Publisher | Routledge; 1st edition |
| ISBN 13 | 9781032445144 |
| ISBN 10 | 1032445149 |
| Author | Ole Jacob Madsen |
| Book Format | Paperback |
| Language | English |
| Book Description | Can school teach us to master life? This book confronts what the author sees as an ongoing trend in many Western democracies where citizens are increasingly being held accountable for their health and happiness.The author believes that the introduction of life skills in school shows a tendency to place more responsibility on the individual rather than address fundamental societal flaws that really should be solved politically. It examines how such responsibility to psychologically deal with these problems affects our mental health and quality of life. This book questions the fundamentals of the life mastery curriculum where we might be risking the creation of just another arena where children have to perform, challenging readers to evaluate more closely the premises, consequences and limitations of life mastery.The book, one of the first to question ‘life mastery’ as an achievable goal with critical reviews of the 21st century skills movement, will be of interest to psychologists, school counsellors, teachers, students, politicians, and any reader evaluating school curriculums in relation to the decline in youth and adolescent mental health.The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons [Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND)] 4.0 license. |
| About the Author | Ole Jacob Madsen is Professor of Cultural and Community Psychology at the University of Oslo, Norway. His previous works include: The Therapeutic Turn (2014), Optimizing the Self (2015), The Psychologization of Society (2018), The Routledge International Handbook of Therapeutic Cultures (2020) and Deconstructing Scandinavia’s "Achievement Generation" (2021). |
| Publication Date | 30 January 2025 |
| Number of Pages | 98 pages |
Life Skills and Adolescent Mental Health: Can Kids Be Taught to Master Life?
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