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 by Debby IrvingWhistling Vivaldi by Claude M. SteeleHow Women Decide by Therese HustonBandwidth Recovery by Cia VerscheldenWeapons of Math Destruction by Cathy O'NeilTrans* in College by Z. NikolazzoSmall Teaching by James M. LangWhite Folks by Timothy J. Lensmire The New Education by Cathy N. DavidsonCulturally Responsive Teaching and the Brain by Zaretta HammondThe Autistic Brain by Temple GrandinEducated by Tara WestoverScarcity by Sendhil MullainathanTeaching About Race and Racism in the College Classroom by Cyndi KernahanHow to Be an Anti-Racist by Ibram X. Kendi Alternative Universities: Speculative Design for Innovation in Higher Education by David J. StaleyCaste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel WilkersonGrading For Equity: What It Is, Why It Matters, and How It Can Transform Schools and Classrooms by Joe FeldmanMen and Masculinities: Theoretical Foundations and Promising Practices For Supporting College Men's Development by Daniel Tillapaugh and Brian L. McGowanRelationship-Rich Education: How Human Connections Drive Success in College by Peter Felten and Leo M. Lambert