Kids These Days: The Media (and Social Media) on Student Mental Health

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In recent weeks several major feature articles have perpetuated a growing trend to portray today’s students – particularly those in high school and college – as unusually fragile and disposed to mental health problems. First, in a September article in The Atlantic provocatively titled “Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation?” psychologist Jean Twenge suggested we are…Continue Reading Kids These Days: The Media (and Social Media) on Student Mental Health