Break Out of Bad Therapy: Gen Z’s Road to Resilience

Source: American Institute for Economic Research
by Katelyn Walls Shelton

“In 2018, 1,200 Yale undergraduates crowded into one of the University’s largest venues, Battell Chapel, ready to listen and learn. But the students sitting in the glow of the chapel’s stained-glass windows, who comprised almost a quarter of Yale’s undergraduate population, were not there for a church service. They were there for the most popular class in Yale’s 316-year history: Psychology and the Good Life – or, as it was more colloquially known, ‘the happiness class.’ Undergraduates attending Yale that year would have been born between 1996 and 2000 …. According to Abigail Shrier, who herself spent time as a student at Yale (and Columbia and Oxford, a veritable bouquet of prestigious universities), Generation Z is ‘the loneliest, most anxious, depressed, pessimistic, helpless, and fearful generation on record.’ And she’s not the only one to say so.” (09/17/24)

https://www.aier.org/article/break-out-of-bad-therapy-gen-zs-road-to-resilience/