Deconstructing Scandinavia's "achievement generation" : a youth mental health crisis? / Ole Jacob Madsen ; translated by Diana Oatley.
2021
RJ503 .M33 2021
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Title
Deconstructing Scandinavia's "achievement generation" : a youth mental health crisis? / Ole Jacob Madsen ; translated by Diana Oatley.
ISBN
9783030725556 (electronic bk.)
3030725553 (electronic bk.)
9783030725549
3030725545
3030725553 (electronic bk.)
9783030725549
3030725545
Published
Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, [2021]
Language
English
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Translated from Norwegian.
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1 online resource
Item Number
10.1007/978-3-030-72555-6 doi
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RJ503 .M33 2021
Dewey Decimal Classification
616.8900835
Summary
In this book, Professor Ole Jacob Madsen analyses the implications of Scandinavia's current concern for the mental health problems of adolescents, said to be struggling in the face of increasing demands for achievement and success. It critically examines our understanding of this so-called "achievement generation", questioning whether today's youth are really worse off than previous generations and how we have come to believe that this is so. The author's wide-ranging investigation draws on a large body of research, as well as considering socio-political, historical and regional factors that might be affecting the resilience and mental health among young people. It also provides original psycholinguistic studies of popular media concepts associated with these issues including: the achievement generation, pathological perfection and the good girl syndrome. Deconstructing Scandinavia's "Achievement Generation" presents an engaging contribution to key debates around therapeutic culture and society in the 21st century. It will appeal to students and scholars of critical and social psychology, sociology, anthropology, philosophy; as well as to those working in education, social work and mental health. Ole Jacob Madsen is Professor of Cultural and Community Psychology at the University of Oslo, Norway. His previous works include: The Therapeutic Turn: How Psychology Altered Western Culture (2014), Optimizing the Self: Social Representations of Self-Help (2015) and The Psychologization of Society: On the Unfolding of the Therapeutic in Norway (2018) and The Routledge International Handbook of Global Therapeutic Cultures (2020)
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Table of Contents
Chapter 1
Introduction
Chapter 2
The Pathologies of Modernity
Chapter 3
The Pathologies of Late Modernity
Chapter 4
Young, privileged and sick
Chapter 5
Youth under pressure
Chapter 6
Social representations
Chapter 7
Self-fulfilling prophecies
Chapter 8
The Paradox of Health
Chapter 9
Conclusion.
Introduction
Chapter 2
The Pathologies of Modernity
Chapter 3
The Pathologies of Late Modernity
Chapter 4
Young, privileged and sick
Chapter 5
Youth under pressure
Chapter 6
Social representations
Chapter 7
Self-fulfilling prophecies
Chapter 8
The Paradox of Health
Chapter 9
Conclusion.