Therapy
In a new book, two academics say the craze for giving pupils therapy through education is leaving a generation self-obsessed, introverted and unable to take criticism. Pupils are left "infantilised", "hapless" and "unwilling to accept challenges to their ideas", according to Dr Dennis Hayes and Professor Kathryn Ecclestone of Oxford Brookes University. Their stinging criticism in a book titled The Dangerous Rise of Therapeutic Education follows the introduction of lessons in "social and emotional aspects of learning" in primary and secondary schools.