166 - Mental Health Friday Q&A with Clinical Psychologist Dr. Laura Murray
Public Health On Call
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
4.6 • 644 Ratings
🗓️ 25 September 2020
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
How can we deal with all of the unique stressors happening right now? How can families adjust to "back to school," in whatever form that may take? Is it helpful to have a broader perspective of what's going on in the world? What should we be doing to prepare for the winter months ahead in terms of our mental health and outlook?
Dr. Laura Murray returns to the podcast this week with Stephanie Desmon to talk us through dealing with some of the punches 2020 has thrown.
KEYWORDS: community mental health; stress management; child health
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Season 2 of Public Health On Call, a podcast from the Johns Hopkins |
| 0:11.6 | Bloomberg School of Public Health. |
| 0:13.6 | I'm Joshua Sharfstein, Vice Dean for Public Health Practice and Community Engagement, |
| 0:18.8 | and a former secretary of Maryland's Health Department. |
| 0:21.8 | Our goal is to bring scientific evidence and experience to the public health news of the day |
| 0:27.3 | through informative interviews with scientists, community leaders, policy experts, public |
| 0:32.5 | health officials, clinicians, and more. If you have ideas or questions for us to cover, please email us at public health question |
| 0:41.0 | at jhh.edu. |
| 0:43.3 | That's public health question at jh.edu for future podcast episodes. |
| 0:49.5 | Today, Johns Hopkins Clinical Psychologist Laura Murray is back with Stephanie Desmond to answer your mental health questions. |
| 0:58.1 | This time, they talk about how incredibly stressful 2020 has been and how to take stock of your feelings as the pandemic continues and other difficult situations unfold on top of it. |
| 1:10.7 | Let's listen. Laura Murray, thanks so much for joining me. and other difficult situations unfold on top of it. |
| 1:10.8 | Let's listen. |
| 1:12.4 | Laura Murray, thanks so much for joining me. |
| 1:15.3 | Thanks for having me, Stephanie. |
| 1:16.5 | It's great to be here again. |
| 1:18.8 | So let's talk about 2020. |
| 1:20.9 | It has really thrown a lot of punches. |
| 1:23.5 | I mean, we've had, obviously, this COVID pandemic, |
| 1:26.3 | which is six months long and going strong. we've had, obviously, this COVID pandemic, which is six months long and going strong. |
| 1:30.0 | We've had police killings. |
| 1:33.7 | We've had terrible fires. |
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