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How to Explain Coronavirus to a Child with Anxiety

29/3/2020

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Coronavirus is scary for all of us. For children with comorbid anxiety disorder, school closures and health threats are downright paralyzing. Here are 11 expert tips for talking to your child about COVID-19, navigating the next few weeks at home together, and living with the constant hum of uncertainty in an ADHD household.

The last week has felt like one long news ticker — spiraling coverage of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19), compounded by a steady stream of school closures and event cancellations, video of toilet-paper battles in Costco, and one Presidential address after the other. With so much new, bad information coming to light each hour and so many questions left unanswered, families are feeling on edge — and with good reason.

www.additudemag.com/explain-coronavirus-covid-19-anxiety-adhd-child/
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Talking to Kids About the Coronavirus

29/3/2020

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News of the coronavirus COVID-19 is everywhere, from the front page of all the papers to the playground at school. Many parents are wondering how to bring up the epidemic in a way that will be reassuring and not make kids more worried than they already may be. Here is some advice from the experts at the Child Mind Institute.

​childmind.org/article/talking-to-kids-about-the-coronavirus/
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    In her writing Nicole explores the complex dynamic between the uniqueness of individual expression and universal application, taking her knowledge of the fields of Psychology and Psychotherapy and asking deep questions about what it means to be human.

    “Existential psychotherapy is an attitude toward human suffering [that] has no manual. It asks deep questions about the nature of the human being and the nature of anxiety, despair, grief, loneliness, isolation, and anomie. It also deals centrally with the questions of meaning, creativity and love” (Yalom & Josselson 2011).

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