The long-term impact of the pandemic on children’s mental health
May 10, 2021
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Join me in a conversation with Dr. Roseann Capanna-Hodge, as she takes us through long-term impacts of the pandemic on our children’s mental health.
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- What some of the long term effects of the pandemic and isolation will be on our children
- The behavioral signs that your child may be stressed or struggling, plus how to best notice them
- The differences of stress, anxiety and depression and how to spot them
- Listening to your mom voice above all else when you feel like your child might be struggling
- Paying attention to your own stress and stress within your household that may be affecting your children negatively and important to show them how you handle your own stress
- The negative physical effects of sitting all day or being on devices
- Natural therapies to help reduce the symptoms we’re seeing right now
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Show Notes
- The research behind the stress and mental health issues that are coming about with the pandemic and isolation. (4:42)
- Signs we should be looking for and how to decipher between stress, anxiety and depression. (9:30)
- It’s important to also listen to your mom gut because mental health issues usually go years without being diagnosed. (13:55)
- How to ask your kids the right questions to find out how they’re feeling. (16:48)
- How we can get our kids to increase their focus, engagement, and motivation when they’re learning virtually. (21:43)
- Why you should let your children with attention issues fidget. (26:12)
- Dr. Roseann’s top recommendations to naturally support symptoms. (27:16)
Resources and Links
Dr. Roseann’s book: It’s Gonna Be OK
Instagram: @drroseann/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/drroseann1
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DrRoseannCapannaHodge/
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More about Dr. Roseann Capanna-Hodge
Dr. Roseann Capanna-Hodge is a mental health trailblazer, founder of The Global Institute of Children’s Mental Health, and media expert who is, “Changing the way we view and treat children’s mental health.” Her work has helped thousands reverse the most challenging conditions: ADHD, anxiety, mood, Lyme, and PANS/PANDAS using PROVEN holistic therapies. She is often featured on dozens of media outlets including Fox, CBS, NBC, FORBES, PARENTS, and New York Times.
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2:07 Tara Hunkin:
Hi, everyone. I want to welcome you back to the My Child Will Thrive Podcast. I am actually really grateful. I actually, the word today to have with me, Dr. Roseann Capanna-Hodge. I met Dr. Roseann at a conference a couple of years ago. Oh gosh. It'd be probably more than a couple of years ago and just have loved the work that she's done. But in particular, right now, she has created a resource, a new book that I think is going to be really helpful to everybody out there.
And what we're going to be talking about today is a longterm impact of the pandemic on our children's mental health, which is a really, really important topic. And I think that we can all agree at this point in time that we need to start paying, if we aren't already, we've got to start paying attention to this really closely and do everything we can to help the kids along as we continue through this,
but just a little bit more about Dr. Roseann. She is a mental health trailblazer laser and the founder of the Global Institute of Children's Mental Health. And she's a media expert who is changing the way we view and treat children's mental health. Her work has helped thousands reverse the most challenging conditions, including ADHD, anxiety, mood disorders, Lyme, PANS/PANDAS using proven holistic therapies.
And she is often featured very often, especially in this past year on dozens of media outlets, including Fox, CBS, NBC Forbes, Parents Magazine, and New York Times. So I am, like I said, I actually, I was going to say excited, but I'm super grateful that I have the opportunity to talk to you today, Dr. Roseann, because this is such an important and timely, unfortunately timely topic that we need to talk about today.
4:07: Dr. Roseann Capanna-Hodge:
Well, I'm grateful that we are having this conversation because every parent is worried about their kid and we should be worried about our kid and we're going to dive into what are the things they should be looking for and what they can do to really try to be as proactive as possible and if your kid is struggling,what should you do?
4:30 Tara Hunkin:
Yeah, so, well, let's, let's talk about that. Let's start right from the beginning. What do you feel given, what we're dealing with right now, the long-term impact of the pandemic is going to be on our children?
4:42 Dr. Roseann Capanna-Hodge:
Yeah, so I think first of all, every kid is different and some kids have better coping skills, built-in resiliency, developed resiliency, because it's a skill that can be developed and so not, everybody's going to be impacted in the same way. With that being said, what we know from research, survey research, here in the United States, Asia and Europe, we already see that there's a greater rate of depression, particularly amongst teenagers. And there's about a 50{4537a52abafa24f75931b694e3f6d1d9b0beb5896e18e49b3141987b78b41d96} rate of depression for family members, including kids, if they had somebody in their family that had COVID. As well as in Asia, which is way ahead of us in the pandemic, we have lots of research that's showing the same kind of things. So we know that isolation, reduced physical activity, hello, terrible in many places, virtual learning experiences. And we can dive into that.
5:53 Dr. Roseann Capanna-Hodge:
This is all culminating into a perfect storm of difficulty for our kids. And on top of that, parents are struggling, right? So we know from the APA (American Psychological Association) does a survey every year, stress in America, American parents. And I think this is probably across the globe, but this is the research we have. 70{4537a52abafa24f75931b694e3f6d1d9b0beb5896e18e49b3141987b78b41d96} of parents in the United States are experiencing significantly more stress than the year before due to the pandemic parenting and educational components that are affecting their life at this time.
So we have a lot of factors kind of happening for our kids right now. And we should be concerned. I don't think we need research, but being the research nerd, I like to talk about it because we shouldn't just assume something's going to happen, we also should never ignore. And I want parents to