Play, Anxiety, and Resilience: 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

🗓️ 19 March 2021

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Dr. Pam Davis, Associate Professor of Counseling at Gordon-Conwell Seminary and Director of the Counseling Department at Charlotte campus, joins Dan and Rachael to engage the immense difficulty of parenting in a pandemic and speak directly to those working with children. You’ll hear understanding affirmations and how Dr. Davis addresses the oftentimes overwhelming challenge of needing to care for yourself in order to care for your children, the importance of play, and other vital resources to utilize in this season.

Resources:

Learn more about Dr. Pam Davis and her work

Listen to an episode from the early months of the pandemic titled “Parenting in the Midst of a Pandemic”

Read an article by Dr. Pam Davis recently published in Psychology Today titled “Fostering Resilience in Children during a Pandemic”

Read a blog post by Jay Stringer about “Good Enough Parenting in a Time of Crisis”

Transcript

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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.
0:24.6	Thank you for joining us. Let's get this conversation started. What we know from the experience of living in this last year is if there is any group of people most affected.
0:35.6	And I know that's kind of a hard debate, but what I have seen, some of the most
0:42.3	significant struggles have been for parents to be a parent in the middle of COVID and all the
0:49.4	complexities of what we have faced in a divided political realm, racial trauma, the realities of loss,
1:00.8	grieving, struggle.
1:02.9	We really want to engage parents and grandparents, people who are tending to these beloved ones. We need a lot of help and we need a lot
1:14.2	of reflection. And so today we have Rachel and I get to introduce one of my dear friends, Pam
1:22.5	Davis. And Pam and I have known one another and Becky for, you know, if we do dog years, it's what's, we're, we're well into the hundreds here.
1:33.7	But I'll say that Pam is an associate professor at Gordon Conwell in Charlotte.
1:40.1	She's head of the counseling program there.
1:42.6	She taught at Wheaton.
1:44.3	She was a missionary in Changang Mai, Thailand, which is where we met initially.
1:51.2	So, Pam, to join us, you are indeed.
1:55.6	Nobody likes to be called an expert, but you really are.
1:59.0	A thoughtful expert in the realm of dealing with children and
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