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While therapeutic education has been around for decades, Ecclestone and Hayes' groundbreaking 2009 book was the first to properly outline how popular psychology and "medicalized thinking" have progressively taken over classroom practice, alongside emotionalism. In most provinces and regional school districts, emotional well-being, emotional literacy, and emotional competency have made considerable gains, displacing academic skills, knowledge, and cognitive learning as the key educational outcomes.Therapeutic education in Canada differs from its counterparts in the United States. Character education and Christian religious values have far more sway in American state systems, and leading education conservatives such as Chester Finn and Rick Hess regard moral education as an essential component of the American educational tradition dating back to the founding of the Republic and Horace Mann's formative years. In Anglo Canada, the public school culture is significantly more open to collaborative approaches aimed at furthering the public good through well-intentioned psychological strategies and practices trauma-informed educationCanadian public school variants of SEL, stripped of their moral and religious grounding, have been completely consumed by the secular therapeutic ethos and self-absorbed quest of personal identities. 

Therapy culture has grown nearly unabated in Canadian 

schools, as evidenced by the development of child psychologists, mental health counselling, and mindfulness curriculum initiatives. One of the great ironies of this recent phenomenon is that the purveyors of therapeutic education, ensconced in public health units and education faculties, arrive promising uplift, tranquility, and empowerment, but tend to "cultivate vulnerability" and can foster feelings associated with what psychologists refer to as a "diminished self."Jonathan Haidt and Greg Lukianoff's 2019 book, The Coddling of the American Mind, is one of the most trenchant assessments of modern social trends, addressing the inconsistencies present in education at all levels, from preschool to universities. The authors clearly highlighted the "coddling of the mind" and the urge to create a protective cocoon of "safetyism" around today's pupils. Fierce critics of the expansion of therapy culture in education, like as Furedi, go even farther, alleging that therapy culture is fed by trauma-informed techniques, perpetuates a culture of fear, and lends validity to claims that the majority of kids are weak and require protection.Overdiagnosis of children and adolescents with broadly defined mental health concerns may be an undetected problem. According to Health and Human Services survey data, more than two-thirds of American students experience at least one traumatic event before they reach the age of sixteen. In Canada, top specialists such as Rosalynn M. Record-Lemon and Maria J. Buchanan consistently state that statistics reveal 76.

percent of Canadians will encounter at least 

one traumatic event in their lifetime. Prior to COVID-19, many, if not most, children and adults were thought to be dealing with psychological trauma and life events that exceeded their ability to manage. Maltreatment, familial violence, bullying, natural catastrophes, sickness, and personal bereavement were all connected to "widespread psychological, physical, and developmental consequences." All of this is frequently used as justification for the widespread implementation of Trauma-Informed Practice (TIP) in publically financed schools.Reframing the educational discussio Education is devolving into social therapy for children and adolescents. As a result, the weary old debate between educational progressivism and traditional teaching is losing traction. It all comes down to whether the goal of education is to cultivate or impart key abilities such as core competencies, critical thinking, creativity, and communication. Most teachers prefer to fluctuate between the two approaches, tackling everyday classroom realities by borrowing from one or the other and then deciding on something that works for them and their pupils.Therapeutic education has surged in popularity over the last decade, particularly since the global epidemic. As British educator David Didau once observed, it may be more fruitful to redefine the entire education discussion as a conflict between "therapeutic" and "academic" education.

The pandemic education crisis was accompanied

by a profound catharsis that transformed school systems over two school years, for months on end, into protective spaces adhering to COVID-19 public health directives and focusing on providing a semblance of rough equity and support for students from disadvantaged or marginalized communities. In Ontario, it has even inspired a new educational administration enterprise called "trauma-sensitive school leadership."As families and schools recover from "learning loss" and the associated psychosocial repercussions, the nearly exclusive emphasis on SEL and trauma-informed practice will fade. When we clear our minds, policymakers, school leaders, and educators will be more inclined to return therapeutic practice to its proper place: as a supplement rather than a replacement for meaningful, purposeful, and effective teaching and learning. The aftermath of Silicon Valley Bank's failure has been the low point of a disastrous month for America's technology sector. Canadian banking restrictions may protect us from a financial shockwave, but if you utilize the internet rather than having a print-out of this piece delivered to you by a helpful bystander, you may feel the consequences of Amazon and Meta laying off tens of thousands of employees.Anyone who continues to use Meta's goods will not be surprised by the layoffs. Facebook has lost users, reducing news feeds to wastelands where inspirational memes drift like typo-riddled tumbleweeds. And wherever the deserters have gone, it isn't the Metaverse, Mark Zuckerberg's ode to setting billions of dollars on fire. If it feels like only a few months ago that we were promised "Web 3.0" was going to transform life as we know it, that's because it did, yet all that has changed so far is Silicon Valley's job figures.Now that cryptocurrency has crashed and NFTs are a thing of the past, the new buzz is about ChatGPT, the AI writing tool whose introduction Thomas Friedman recently described as "a Promethean moment" that will revolutionize the creative arts, presumably before he was rendered speechless by an unusually feature-laden toaster oven.