Mental Health: How to Help Kids in a Pandemic

The Allender Center Podcast

The Allender Center

Psychology, Religion & Spirituality, Mental Health, Christianity, Trauma, Health & Fitness, Theology

4.6 • 628 Ratings

🗓️ 26 March 2021

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Dr. Pam Davis again joins Dan and Rachael to continue their conversation about how to help kids in this year of pandemic and the many other global and social events our kids are exposed to. This week, she talks about how we can differentiate between normal mental health struggles in children, when we may need to seek help, and how to tell the difference. Listen and learn what steps you can take to engage children’s mental health and be reminded that this is not a normal time—we need an abundance of kindness both towards ourselves and those around us as we navigate this challenging season.

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0:00.0	Thank you for listening to the Allender Center podcast.
0:06.7	I'm Dr. Dan Allender.
0:08.7	And I'm Rachel Clinton-Centen.
0:10.5	We're fiercely committed to providing hope and healing to a fragmented world.
0:14.7	And restoration for the heart.
0:17.2	Thank you for joining us.
0:18.5	Let's get this conversation started.
0:26.7	Thank you for joining us. Let's get this conversation started. While we're back today, I'm here with Dan and also Dr. Pam Davis, and we're going to pick up our conversation talking about how to help our kids and our teenagers cultivate resilience and also just
0:40.1	how to have more awareness and more help and more ways to be in relationship in this season of
0:47.3	a global pandemic that is still ongoing and in the midst of all the other I would say social, social frameworks that have been exposed, that they're exposed to.
0:57.8	And so in our last conversation, we were talking about ways to be engaging our kids and our grandkids and our nieces and our nephews and our God kids and our stepkids and just all the different
1:12.8	ways we're involved in kids' lives. But how we can be engaging with them at this time. And the
1:19.8	things I took away was just this sense of how to help them cultivate resilience, how to use play
1:25.5	as a way to engage and a part of that cultivating resilience,
1:29.4	and also just acknowledging that this is not a normal time. And our tendency, especially as parents,
1:35.5	to just kind of try to do things as normal, just being hyper-focused on schoolwork and maybe putting
1:42.5	undue pressure on kids. And I think Pam, you said, maybe it's time
1:46.7	to stop working so hard on school and actually work on mental health. And so as we come
1:51.7	into this conversation today, we want to talk a little bit more about how we differentiate
1:56.9	between kind of normal struggles with mental health that in many ways we're all having
2:03.1	right now being in really unprecedented time that's required more resilience from many of us than
2:08.4	we knew we had and when kids are struggling with mental health in a way that you actually need
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