Revisit Anxiety, Teenagers, University and Leaving Home
Arts & Ideas
BBC
4.2 • 599 Ratings
🗓️ 12 September 2019
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Caroline Dower is a psychotherapist and currently Head of the Counselling Service at Durham University. She has a special interest in the experience of psychological distress, and the experience of anxiety in young adults.
Ceyda Uzun is a student at Kings College London, currently in her final year studying English Literature. She is a former Into Film Reporter and Head Editor of The Strand Magazine who has written on topics including mental health, identity and youth culture.
Stephen Briers is a British clinical psychologist who took part in BBC Three's Little Angels and Teen Angels, working with Tanya Byron. He has presented the Channel 4 series, Make Me A Grownup, The 10 Demandments for Channel Five and appeared on GMTV. He has written a parenting book called Superpowers for Parents, Help your Child to Succeed in Life and contributes frequently to the Times Educational Supplement.
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| 0:40.7 | I'm Shahad Abari, and coming shortly, I'll be looking at these anxious times we live in |
| 0:45.8 | and visiting a new exhibition exploring the subject. |
| 0:49.3 | But today we're bringing you a discussion from this year's Freethinking Festival, |
| 0:52.9 | which explored a whole range of emotions. |
| 0:55.9 | As universities up and down the UK |
| 0:57.7 | prepare to welcome students for the new |
| 0:59.9 | term, here's Anne McElvoy with a debate |
| 1:02.1 | about teen anxiety |
| 1:03.8 | and how to deal with the stresses |
| 1:05.8 | of leaving home, which we recorded |
| 1:07.6 | with an audience at Sage Gateshead. |
| 1:15.0 | Thank you. home, which we recorded with an audience at Sage Gateshead. Hello. |
| 1:16.3 | Latest figures from the Children's Charity Childline show they delivered over 21,000 |
| 1:21.8 | counselling sessions to young people trying to cope with feelings of anxiety, almost twice as many as two years ago. |
| 1:30.1 | Maybe there never was a golden age when teenage life was free of stress and care, |
| 1:34.9 | and the transitions from child to teen and teen to young adult took place with ease. |
| 1:39.8 | But a confluence of social media heightened expectations of what young people should be capable of, |
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