Year 3, Week 14 (116 total reports)COVID-19 & Youth Mental Health
13.07.2022-19.06.2022
This Week’s Top Links
19.07.2022
Matt Shirley Draws Relatable And Funny Charts, And Here Are 92 Of His Freshest Ones To Make You Laugh
https://www.boredpanda.com/funny-relatable-charts-matt-shirley/
We all need some of Matt Shirley’s medicine. These charts had me giggling through my morning. Whether your dealing with Zoom saturation or wanting to visualize your boundaries, there is something for you in this hilarious post-pandemic compilation.
18.07.2022
These 4 Factors Can Explain Why So Many People Are Rejecting Science
https://www.sciencealert.com/distrust-in-science-is-causing-harm-but-these-researchers-have-a-plan
These four factors are important to understand if we’re going to move people to make decisions based upon scientific research instead of gut feelings.
17.07.2022
8 Simple (But Powerful) Choices You Can Make To Invite More Joy Into Your Life
https://www.yourtango.com/self/replenish-well-abundance
Feeling a sense of abundance is a determined choice. If you scroll down, you will find another link that ranked very high this week, “Why you’re never going to be satisfied with life.” Though it may sound negative, it is not bad news, it is really rational thinking. To think we can maintain joy continually is unsound and even unhealthy. Instead, seek out the small joys and keep track of them.
16.07.2020
Research Suggests How to Prevent Unwelcome Thoughts
https://www.discovermagazine.com/mind/research-suggests-how-to-prevent-unwelcome-thoughts
Learning to reject and replace unwelcome thoughts is difficult. However, there is a science behind it and learning those methods can help free you from repetitive negative cognitive cycles. Take a moment to benefit from the research these behavioral scientists identified in Jerusalem.
15.07.2022
3 Ways to Get Students Engaged in Their Learning
https://www.edweek.org/leadership/3-ways-to-get-students-engaged-in-their-learning/2022/07
In the article linked below, “The state of learning loss: 7 takeaways from the latest data,” we learn that the learning loss gap is diminishing, but more so among younger children. Older kids are having a harder time closing that gap and an important part of that is their increased need for engagement in their own education process. This article helps identify critical techniques from learned teachers on enhancing educational engagement.
14.07.2022
The ultimate guide to building resilience so you can bounce back from tough times
Fast Company has good articles that are succinct and yet loaded with meat. This article by Gwen Moran is up-to-par. She provides concrete steps for building resilience, regardless of age and circumstance. Read this article to understand better the Habits of Resilience.
13.07.2022
How simply naming emotions can help your children
Naming intense emotions is essential to emotional maturity at any age. The sooner you can help your children do that, the happier they will be and the more fulfilling their lives can become. They will have improved social skills, better grades, more reading capacity; the benefits are almost countless. If your child (or the child you work with) has a difficult time expressing their emotions, consider consulting a Speech Language Pathologist for common assistive devices. Adult care-givers AND children will benefit from the experience of learning words for emotions.
This Week’s Links
19.07.2022
Matt Shirley Draws Relatable And Funny Charts, And Here Are 92 Of His Freshest Ones To Make You Laugh
https://www.boredpanda.com/funny-relatable-charts-matt-shirley/
Why You’re Never Going to Be Satisfied With Life
The Teachers we Remember
https://www.ted.com/talks/julie_hasson_the_teachers_we_remember
Searching for Meaning? Try Appreciating the Small Things
https://neurosciencenews.com/meaning-life-small-things-21063/
The state of learning loss: 7 takeaways from the latest data
https://www.chalkbeat.org/2022/7/19/23269210/learning-loss-recovery-data-nwea-pandemic
False negative rapid Covid tests create confusion for people with obvious symptoms
A Nasal Spray Seems to Help Clear Coronavirus in Clinical Trial
https://gizmodo.com/a-nasal-spray-seems-to-help-clear-coronavirus-in-clinic-1849191972
6 steps to making a COVID plan, before you get sick
https://theconversation.com/6-steps-to-making-a-covid-plan-before-you-get-sick-187158
Fauci says it's 'becoming more and more difficult to get people to listen' because Americans are fed up with the COVID-19 pandemic and want it 'behind them'
https://www.businessinsider.com/fauci-more-and-more-difficult-get-people-listen-covid-2022-7
18.07.2022
These 4 Factors Can Explain Why So Many People Are Rejecting Science
https://www.sciencealert.com/distrust-in-science-is-causing-harm-but-these-researchers-have-a-plan
Transform Your Life and Workplace with These Gratitude Hacks
https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/428961
Science Confirms It: Beginning Your Day With This 1 Simple Task Will Help You Think and Feel Better
Diet, Exercise, and Logging Off? Rethinking Employee Wellness
https://sloanreview.mit.edu/article/diet-exercise-and-logging-off-rethinking-employee-wellness/
Developmental Dyslexia Was Essential For Human Survival and Still Has Benefits Today
“This Generation Must Work Twice As Hard For What Boomers Had. Here Are The Real Numbers”
https://www.boredpanda.com/gen-z-must-work-twice-hard-than-boomers/
Boost Now or Wait? What You Should Know
https://thetyee.ca/News/2022/07/18/Boost-Now-Or-Wait-What-You-Should-Know/
BA.5 doesn’t care that you just had Covid-19
https://www.vox.com/23200811/covid-19-omicron-ba5-reinfection-vaccine-paxlovid
You'll likely catch COVID-19 again and again. Will each round feel milder? | CBC News
https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/covid-reinfection-risks-adults-1.6522051
17.07.2022
8 Simple (But Powerful) Choices You Can Make To Invite More Joy Into Your Life
https://www.yourtango.com/self/replenish-well-abundance
Care and Feeding: My Kids Are Such Negative Nellies. How Can I Get Them to Appreciate How Good They Have It?
https://slate.com/human-interest/2022/07/negative-kids-bad-attitude.html?via=rss_flipboard
Self-control during adolescence predicts the tendency to forgive others in adulthood, study finds
Covid case increase prompts the return of masks
COVID reinfection has a silver lining—one that may tame the pandemic
16.07.2020
Research Suggests How to Prevent Unwelcome Thoughts
https://www.discovermagazine.com/mind/research-suggests-how-to-prevent-unwelcome-thoughts
Here’s Why the Novavax Vaccine Is So Different From the mRNA Options
https://www.self.com/story/how-does-novavax-covid-vaccine-work
15.07.2022
3 Ways to Get Students Engaged in Their Learning
https://www.edweek.org/leadership/3-ways-to-get-students-engaged-in-their-learning/2022/07
Research Suggests How to Prevent Unwelcome Thoughts
https://www.discovermagazine.com/mind/research-suggests-how-to-prevent-unwelcome-thoughts
Here’s Why the Novavax Vaccine Is So Different From the mRNA Options
https://www.self.com/story/how-does-novavax-covid-vaccine-work
Is It Easier to Get COVID-19 Outdoors with BA.5?
https://apple.news/Aj28LNWhwRLeNu3dQc2wrBg
14.07.2022
The ultimate guide to building resilience so you can bounce back from tough times
On a Scale of 1 to 10, Here's How Worried You Should Be About The COVID Variant BA.5
Some ERs overwhelmed as another COVID-19 wave hits
https://flipboard.com/video/global-news/a07cca7c56
Sore throat and cough top symptoms that could be Covid
https://www.bbc.com/news/health-62161604
13.07.2022
How simply naming emotions can help your children
Young people’s mental health is getting worse but mindfulness training isn’t the answer, large UK study suggests
https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/12/health/mindfulness-training-uk-schools-not-effective-wellness/
An Omicron vaccine is coming. Should you wait for it—or get your next booster now amid BA.5’s surge?
https://fortune.com/2022/07/12/omicron-vaccine-booster-subvariant-ba-5-pfizer-moderna-wait-timing/
New vaccine may protect against coronavirus variants, similar viruses
Fauci calls for masks indoors and warns US faces ANOTHER Covid wave due to 'waning immunity' to Omicron variant - as he returns to TV after his own battle with the virus