Bad Therapy

Categories: Parenting & Relationships, Politics & Social Sciences

Investigative journalist Abigail Shrier argues that the mental health industry is harming rather than helping American children. Drawing on hundreds of interviews with child psychologists, parents, teachers and young people, she examines how therapeutic approaches, from talk therapy to Social Emotional Learning and "gentle parenting", have spread through schools and homes, and why, for the typical child, the cure can be worse than the disease.