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1 online resource. |
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Routledge focus on mental health |
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Routledge focus on mental health.
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| Summary |
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. |
| Biography |
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). |
| Local Note |
Taylor and Francis Taylor and Francis eBooks: Open Access |
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Life skills -- Study and teaching.
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PSYCHOLOGY / Social Psychology.
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EDUCATION / Counseling / General.
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Teenagers -- Mental health.
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Adolescent psychology.
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| Added Title |
Livsferdigheter og ungdommens psykiske helse. English
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| Other Form: |
Print version: 9781000926583 |
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Print version: 1032445122 9781032445120 (OCoLC)1371014342 |
| ISBN |
9781000926576 (electronic book) |
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1000926575 (electronic book) |
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9781003372547 (electronic book) |
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1003372546 (electronic book) |
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9781000926583 (electronic book : EPUB) |
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1000926583 (electronic book : EPUB) |
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1032445122 |
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9781032445120 |
| Standard No. |
10.4324/9781003372547 doi |
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