Let’s Talk About It: Teaching Face-to-Face Communication Skills as Preventative Care for Teens’ Mental Health
Have you noticed that kids today aren’t talking to each other?
We have. We see that today’s teens are connecting with each other, certainly — they spend hours interacting with one another from behind the comfort (and, at times, the agony) of their screens. Yet when kids are off-screen, together, they struggle to talk — and listen.
In this whitepaper, we:
- Explore Gen Z’s current communication habits and examine how they relate to wellbeing
- Examine the mental state of today’s teens
- Consider how explicitly teaching in-person communication skills in schools could help today’s students
- Discuss the role — and power! — teachers can have in reversing this teen “Communication Crisis”
Read on to learn more.
