Children, Trauma, and Racism with Dr. Allison Briscoe-Smith

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🗓️ 28 September 2020

⏱️ 57 minutes

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How have children experienced this year's challenges, and how can we get better at talking with them about race and racism? Today we’re focusing on trauma, resilience, and effective coping, and particularly on the unique challenges experienced by young people and their parents. About our Guest: Dr. Allison Briscoe-Smith is a child clinical psychologist who specializes in trauma and issues of race. She is a senior fellow of Berkeley’s Greater Good Science Center, and is both a professor and the Director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at the Wright Institute. Here's Allison's wonderful article on parenting during overwhelming times that I referenced during our conversation. Support the Podcast: We're now on Patreon! If you'd like to support the podcast, follow this link. Key Topics: 2:25: Honoring the small challenges alongside the big ones. 5:30: What challenges are children facing this year? 7:30: How are children processing our challenges differently from adults? 9:50: Helping children manage this time. 11:30: Finding hope, and having things to look forward to. 13:30: Signs of PTSD, and listening to our children. 16:30: How can we get better at talking to kids? 21:00: How children are processing racial violence. 24:10: Talking with children about racial violence. 28:00: Bias, implicit and otherwise. 34:30: How does bias find its way into the virtual classroom? 37:05: What are we privileging in different spaces? 42:00: The first time a kid experiences or perpetrates racism. 48:30: Creating a family mission statement. Sponsors: From Dr. Hanson: The Foundations of Well-Being brings together the lessons of a lifetime of practice into one year-long online program. Podcast listeners can use the code BEINGWELL25 at checkout for an additional 25% off! Please don't hesitate to apply for a scholarship if you're in need. Join over a million people using BetterHelp, the world’s largest online counseling platform. Visit betterhelp.com/beingwell for 10% off your first month! Want to sleep better? Try the legendary Calm app! Visit calm.com/beingwell for 40% off a premium subscription. Connect with the show: Follow us on Instagram Follow Rick on Facebook Follow Forrest on Facebook Subscribe on iTunes Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to being well I'm Forrest Hansen. If you're new on this
0:07.7	podcast we explore the hard parts of being human and the practical science of
0:11.6	lasting well-being and if you've listened before, welcome back.
0:15.0	It's been a long challenging year for many people.
0:18.0	From the pandemic and quarantine to graphic depictions of racialized violence
0:22.0	and the related social upheaval to a variety
0:25.3	of environmental crises including the recent fires that have been ravaging the west coast
0:29.6	of the United States, we've been through a lot. Oh, and also it's an election year in America, which I'm sure is going to lead to some really rational, thoughtful discourse all the way around.
0:39.0	Anyway, things have been at best hard, disruptive, and to use a different kind of word, even traumatic
0:45.2	for many people.
0:46.7	And with the relatively recent start of the school year, there's been some additional focus
0:50.5	on a different and perhaps particularly vulnerable population of people.
0:55.0	Children and young people all around who have experienced this year's unique challenges
1:00.0	as a considerably larger chunk of their lives.
1:03.4	Today we're going to be focusing on trauma, resilience,
1:06.6	and effective coping, and particularly
1:08.7	on the unique challenges experienced by both young people
1:12.0	and their parents.
1:13.0	I've really been looking forward to this conversation
1:15.0	and am incredibly pleased to welcome today's guest, Dr. Allison Briscoe Smith.
1:19.0	Dr. Briscoe Smith is a child clinical psychologist
1:22.0	who specializes in trauma and issues of race.
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