When a Child’s Soul Goes on Strike

When a Child’s Soul Goes on Strike

Why more and more children are becoming mentally ill and how we can protect them

The child and adolescent psychiatrist and psychotherapist Michael Elpers is sounding the alarm: more and more children and young people are showing up with psychological problems like depression, anxiety disorders, learning and performance disorders or eating disorders. The trend is on the rise - if we don’t finally begin to take countermeasures. The author sees unstable family structures, the pressure to perform at school, exclusion and excessive internet consumption as the social causes for all this. Michael Elpers is looking for ways to provide relief for parents by demanding faster, unbureaucratic help from society, schools and medical science for families which are affected. His book explains the situation, calls for mental illnesses in children and adolescents to be destigmatised and describes preventive measures to help strengthen our children’s resilience. Elpers says: we must finally start talking openly about why our children are doing so badly. Because we can only protect our children, if we name the causes. • Provides relief for parents, calls out the errors in the system • First specialised book on mental illnesses in children and their causes • Concrete solution proposals from an experienced child and adolescent psychiatrist • Debate topic – a chapter on Corona