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Loss, Grief, Stress: How The Pandemic Is Affecting Kids
NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro and education correspondent Cory Turner talk with child psychologist Abigail Gewirtz about the impact of the pandemic on kid's mental health and development. ... GARCIA-NAVARRO: Abigail, let's start with the research. What can you tell us about the studies that are looking at kids and mental health in this crisis? GEWIRTZ: Well, there are studies that are ongoing. Our world is really turned upside down. We are just beginning to think about how to understand what's happening to children's mental health and to children's well-being in general.
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Social Isolation’s High Physical and Psychological Toll
When Newton, Mass., closed its schools in mid-March to help stop the spread of coronavirus, Nataly Kogan was thrilled. No more rushing to get breakfast. Her 15-year-old daughter, Mia, could sleep in. The two did puzzles and made videos to post on TikTok. Ms. Kogan thought she would paint. “It was bliss,” she recalls. “Full-on denial. Those were two of the best weeks of my life.” The third week, reality hit. School closures would extend indefinitely. Mia’s summer program at Johns Hopkins University was canceled. So was time with friends. Ms. Kogan teaches emotional health, she says. It is the subject of her speeches, her books and her company, Happier Inc.
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How Humans Evolved to Care for Others
APS Member/Author: Alison Gopnik The last few weeks have seen extraordinary displays of altruism. Ordinary people have transformed their lives—partly to protect themselves and the people they love from the Covid-19 pandemic, but also to help other people they don’t even know. But where does altruism come from? How could evolution by natural selection produce creatures who sacrifice themselves for others? In her 2019 book “Conscience,” the philosopher Patricia Churchland argues that altruism has its roots in our mammalian ancestry. The primordial example of an altruistic emotion is the love that mothers feel toward their babies.
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‘Education via Computer Needs To Be Limited’: Psychologist Says Parents Must Step Up To Nurture Kids In Age Of Coronavirus
With schools closed for more than 55 million children across the country in an effort to slow the spread of coronavirus, students, parents and teachers are facing a host of new and unexpected challenges. Schools all over the country have created virtual classrooms online, but many parents and caregivers find themselves managing the workload and tools like Google docs and Zoom meetings — all in addition to working remotely, taking care of finances and putting food on the table.
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New Research From Clinical Psychological Science
A sample of research on the relationship between executive functions, impulsivity, and psychopathology, affective dynamics in psychopathology, risk profiles in social anxiety disorder, the effects of emphasizing negative affect in psychiatric diagnosis, motivation in schizophrenia, and neural patterns in patients with anxiety.
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For Introverts, Lockdown is a Chance to Play to Our Strengths
Yesterday morning I spent an hour doing a jigsaw puzzle, followed by a game of Scrabble, fortified by tea and scones. For once, there was no one I had to see and nowhere I had to be. The way we live now has split us in two. For introverts, it’s largely business as usual. But for my more extroverted friends, who are clamouring for Zoom calls to fill the gaping hole the pub has left in their lives, it’s a deeply testing time. I’m an introvert, which means I need time alone to recharge. This doesn’t mean I hate socialising, but it may well mean I will feel stressed and fatigued if I’m not left on my own for a while afterwards.
