Book Group


Spring 2024 Book Group Selection

Mind Over Monsters book cover

Please join us in reading and discussing Mind Over Monsters: Supporting Youth Mental Health With Compassionate Challenge by Sarah Rose Cavanagh.

Alarming statistics in recent years indicate that mental health problems like depression and anxiety have been skyrocketing among youth. To identify solutions, psychologist and professor Sarah Rose Cavanagh interviews a roster of experts across the country who are dedicating their lives to working with young people to help them actualize their goals, and highlights voices of college students from a range of diverse backgrounds. Cavanagh also brings the reader on an invigorating tour of pedagogical, neuroscientific, and psychological research on mental health. The result of these combined sources of inquiry indicates that to support youth mental health, we must create what Cavanagh calls compassionate challenge.

Book Group participants will meet four times via Zoom from 3-4 p.m. on Thursdays, beginning on March 28.

Twelve copies of the book are available for checkout from the CITL Resource Library.

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Previous Book Group selections:

Waking Up White book cover Whistling Vivaldi book cover How Women Decide book cover Bandwidth Recovery book cover Weapons of Math Destruction book cover Trans* in College book cover Small Teaching book cover White Folks book cover The New Education book cover Culturally Responsive Teaching and the Brain book cover The Autistic Brain book cover Educated book cover Scarcity book cover Teaching About Race and Racism book cover How to Be an Antiracist book cover Alternative Universities book cover Caste book cover Grading For Equity book cover Men and Masculinities book cover Relationship-Rich Education book cover

Waking Up White by Debby Irving
Whistling Vivaldi by Claude M. Steele
How Women Decide by Therese Huston
Bandwidth Recovery by Cia Verschelden
Weapons of Math Destruction by Cathy O'Neil
Trans* in College by Z. Nikolazzo
Small Teaching by James M. Lang
White Folks by Timothy J. Lensmire
The New Education
by Cathy N. Davidson
Culturally Responsive Teaching and the Brain by Zaretta Hammond
The Autistic Brain by Temple Grandin
Educated by Tara Westover
Scarcity by Sendhil Mullainathan
Teaching About Race and Racism in the College Classroom by Cyndi Kernahan
How to Be an Anti-Racist by Ibram X. Kendi
Alternative Universities: Speculative Design for Innovation in Higher Education by David J. Staley
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson
Grading For Equity: What It Is, Why It Matters, and How It Can Transform Schools and Classrooms by Joe Feldman
Men and Masculinities: Theoretical Foundations and Promising Practices For Supporting College Men's Development by Daniel Tillapaugh and Brian L. McGowan
Relationship-Rich Education: How Human Connections Drive Success in College by Peter Felten and Leo M. Lambert