COVID-19

Will My Child Bounce Back From the Coronavirus Crisis?

2024-12-13T19:36:40-06:00

With many months of the coronavirus crisis behind us and still more uncertainty and stress ahead, life is tough right now for kids of all ages. Many parents — seeing their children experiencing anxiety, sadness and behavior challenges — are wondering how all of this will affect kids in the long term. Can […]

Will My Child Bounce Back From the Coronavirus Crisis?2024-12-13T19:36:40-06:00

Trauma in Children During the COVID-19 Pandemic

2024-12-13T19:38:03-06:00

Across the nation, everyone is being exposed to and reacting to the confusing, stressful, and sometimes frightening situation of the 2019 coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic in different ways. But are we, and our children, being traumatized by the pandemic?

Childhood trauma often involves a negative reaction, called traumatic stress, following an overwhelming, upsetting, or […]

Trauma in Children During the COVID-19 Pandemic2024-12-13T19:38:03-06:00

How to Keep Children’s Stress From Turning Into Trauma

2024-06-18T21:44:59-05:00

By Stacey Steinberg Children may be processing the disruptions in their lives right now in ways the adults around them do not expect: acting out, regressing, retreating or even seeming surprisingly content. Parents need to know that all of this is normal, experts say, and there are some things we can do to […]

How to Keep Children’s Stress From Turning Into Trauma2024-06-18T21:44:59-05:00

Children may act out due to grief or trauma of COVID-19 pandemic, and other lessons from HIV/AIDS

2024-06-18T21:47:57-05:00

By Julie B. Kaplow and Mark W. Kline  No infectious disease since HIV/AIDS in the 1980s has captured the world’s attention in the way COVID-19 has. The HIV/AIDS pandemic is still with us nearly 40 years later. Effective treatment has made HIV/AIDS a manageable medical condition rather than the almost certain death sentence […]

Children may act out due to grief or trauma of COVID-19 pandemic, and other lessons from HIV/AIDS2024-06-18T21:47:57-05:00
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