Home NOT Alone: Family Resilience During Quarantine

How are our children adapting to life under quarantine? What can we do to help? Watch our founder, Dr. Valentina Stoycheva, as she discussed the impact of COVID-19 on children of different ages and provides practical tips on how we can help protect our families’ mental health during social isolation.

This video, recorded as part of The Mentor Project’s series 1-Hour Mentor  discussed the impact of COVID-19 from a developmental perspective. It also focuses on how children’s inherent resilience can be harnessed to help them not just cope but thrive.

https://youtu.be/cAXsmzQpTRg

Below, you can also find an exhaustive list of resources, put together by the Northwell Healths’s STRYDD Center and in partnership with the National Child Traumatic Stress Network (NCTSN).

This list includes resources for all families, as well as resources for parents of children with developmental or intellectual disorders.

If you are interested in therapy for yourself or a loved one, you can request a free phone consult with one of our psychologists HERE or simply call us at 631-683-8499. All of our counselors at STEPS have made it our mission to expand our knowledge in trauma-informed care and provide the most expert, competent, and compassionate care to you and your family.

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Author: Dr. Valentina Stoycheva

Dr. Stoycheva is the Co-Founder and Director of STEPS: Stress & Trauma Evaluation and Psychological Services, Long Island, NY (www.traumaprofessionals.com). STEPS is a group practice staffed with expert and dedicated clinicians, who strive to provide the highest quality trauma-informed and evidence-based treatment for all affected by stressful events and traumatic experiences. STEPS offers individual, as well as group and family therapy for adults and children of all ages who have been exposed to traumatic events, or love someone who is struggling to recover from a traumatic event.

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