Xiaoyan Zhang spoke with National Geographic about how to help children bounce back from adversities related to COVID-19. Zhang notes the positive long term outcomes of emotionally resilient children and discusses steps caregivers can take to help strengthen children’s coping skills.
Read the National Geographic story End-of-school-year celebrations are canceled. Here’s how your kid can bounce back and Zhang’s brief about how to develop emotional resilience in children.
“As the coronavirus pandemic stretches on and child care centers remain closed, many grandparents are split into two groups: those who are quarantined from their families and those who are isolating beside them, according to Madonna Harrington Meyer, a sociology professor at Syracuse University and author of “Grandmothers at Work.” Those providing child care can see tremendous benefits — more physical activity, a healthy emotional life, more socializing — but the additional stressors can also lead to burnout. “It’s simultaneously wonderful and too much,” Meyer said.”
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Amy Ellen Schwartz and Michah W. Rothbart
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Scott Landes spoke with Spectrum News about how individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities are at greater risk of serious illness or death related to COVID-19. Landes says that COVID-19 death rates are higher in this population due partly to several underlying health conditions.
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Mary Kate Lee
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We’ve been in quarantine for about seven weeks now. During this short time, our lives have been flipped upside down and turned inside out in many different capacities. The sandwich generation may be simultaneously caring for their children and parents while working from home. High school and college graduates are unable to celebrate their milestones in traditional ways. Many are out of a paycheck and without health insurance. Some are struggling with the insufferable pain of loneliness. Some have lost loved ones to the coronavirus.
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Austin McNeill Brown and Mariah Brennan Nanni
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As of April 23th, 2020, over 26 million Americans had filed for unemployment due to COVID-19 related business closures.1 The U.S. government has been slow to respond to the direct impacts of unemployment, including the loss of employer-based health insurance for millions of Americans in the middle of a pandemic. According to projections, 7.5 million workers and several million of their dependents will lack health insurance by June 2020.2
Continue ReadingScott D. Landes, Dalton Stevens, & Margaret A. Turk
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Lerner Chair for Public Health Promotion Shannon Monnat was quoted in the Miami Herald discussing the racial disparities of deaths related to COVID-19. She was also quoted in a Syracuse.com article discussing how to restart the local economy throughout Central New York.
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Xiaoyan Zhang & Mary Kate Lee
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A dark cloud of uncertainty looms over our nation, and yet many of us continue to bear responsibility for people who rely on us to take care of them. The great uncertainty we are facing has left many of us anxious, stressed, defensive, and short-sighted. We do not yet know how coronavirus will affect our society in the short term, let alone the world we leave for our children.
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