The Mental Health Implications of Social Acceleration on Canadian Youth.

The acceleration of social change and pace of life in both post-secondary and employment settings has contributed to rising mental health concerns for Canadian youth. Previous research primarily placed the responsibility for such concerns on modernization; however, such an analysis does not account for the continual acceleration of youth mental health concerns, suggesting that modernization does not entirely encompass this social phenomenon. Using Hartmut Rosa's theory of social acceleration, this paper seeks to determine how social policy can be used to mediate the effects of a high-speed society on youth mental health. Contrary to former assumptions, this paper finds that growing youth mental health concerns can be largely attributed to the current high-speed accelerating society rather than modernization. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]