Youth Ministry Institute

Dr. Allan Hugh Cole, Jr. and Rev. Dr. Philip Browning Helsel discuss the prevalence of anxiety among adolescents.

Questions for Discussion:

1. What does it mean that the average youth holds anxiety that, two generations ago, would have caused hospitalizations?
2. How might we as youth workers allow our youth to fail enough so as to be educational, but not too much so as to cause despair?
3. For families who struggle to make ends meet, how might some of that anxiety be lessened? What might be preventable anxiety?
4. How attuned are we to micro-aggressions that happen in our culture? In our church? How might that anxiety be addressed in our youth group?