Today, we are focusing on how families are responding mentally and emotionally to disaster

and how children process loss when a parent or caregiver dies.

Welcome to the Carlet Psychiatry Podcast.

I'm your host, Dr. Josh Pader, the editor-in-chief of the Carlatte Child Psychiatry Report,

and co-author of the Child Medication Fact Book for Psychiatric Practice, Second Edition,

2023.

And one of my side jobs, as Mara knows, is I'm co-chair of the Disaster and Trauma Issues Committee

of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.

And I'm Mara Government, a licensed clinical social worker in Southern California with a private

practice and an avid reader of the Carlet Psychiatry Report.

Thanks so much for joining us.

These topics come up often, unfortunately, especially after disasters that displace families

and strain support systems.

We see responses unfold in waves.

My byline is ready or not.

These things are coming for all of us, and we all need to be ready.

In the early days after, like a flooding that we've just had,

we hear a lot about food, shelter, water,

that mental and emotional responses are happening right away also.

For kids, that response may show through behavior more than words.

They might act more dependent, withdraw, show irritability, or even have trouble sleeping.

So we've been displaced by fires a couple times here in Southern California, and I remember

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