Girls on the Brink: Helping Our Daughters Thrive in the Era of Increased Anxiety, Depression, and Social Media
Date and Time:
Oct 13 2022 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Location:
ON ZOOM

Note: Event start time is Central Time (CT).

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Donna Jackson Nakazawa

Award-winning writer and author

Michelle Icard

Speaker, educator, and author

Girls on the Brink: Helping Our Daughters Thrive in the Era of Increased Anxiety, Depression, and Social Media

Adolescence | Advice | Anxiety | Behavior | Belonging | Connection | Culture | Digital Age | Education | Empathy | Family | Health | Mental Health | Neuroscience | Parenting | Physiology | Psychology | Relationships | Science | Sociology | Stress | Technology | Well Being | Youth

BONUS AFTER-HOURS EVENT: Attendees who purchase a copy of Girls on the Brink from FAN’s partner bookseller The Book Stall are invited to attend an AFTER-HOURS event hosted by Nakazawa and Icard that will start immediately after the webinar. Details on the webinar registration page.

Anyone caring for girls today knows that our daughters, students, and girls next door are more anxious and more prone to depression and self-harming than ever before. As award-winning writer Donna Jackson Nakazawa deftly explains in Girls on the Brink: Helping Our Daughters Thrive in the Era of Increased Anxiety, Depression, and Social Media, new findings reveal that the crisis facing today’s girls is a biologically rooted phenomenon: the earlier onset of puberty mixes badly with the unchecked bloom of social media and cultural misogyny. When this toxic clash occurs during the critical neurodevelopmental window of adolescence, it can alter the female stress-immune response in ways that derail healthy emotional development.

Though puberty is a particularly critical and vulnerable period, it is also a time during which the female adolescent brain is highly flexible and responsive to certain kinds of support and scaffolding. Indeed, we know now that a girl’s innate sensitivity to her environment can, with the right conditions, become her superpower. Nakazawa details the common denominators of such support, shedding new light on the keys to preventing mental health concerns in girls as well as helping those who are already struggling. Drawing on insights from both the latest science and interviews with girls about their adolescent experiences, the author carefully guides adults through fifteen “antidote” strategies to help any teenage girl thrive in the face of stress.

Nakazawa is the author of four books that explore the intersection of neuroscience, immunology, and emotion, including The Angel and the Assassin, named one of the best books of 2020 by Wired magazine, and Childhood Disrupted, which was a finalist for the Books for a Better Life Award. She will be in conversation with Michelle Icard (FAN ’22), the author of Fourteen Talks by Age Fourteen and Middle School Makeover.

This event suitable for youth 12+. It will be recorded and available on our website and YouTube channel.

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