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  By: Dwight Bain, LMHC, NCC   Here’s How to Help Your Child Cope Strategies for parents, teachers , and c ounselor s to manag e trau matic stress facing s tudents who are returning to school during the pandemic Traumatic situations create traumatic emotions – that’s normal for adults and kids. Any event outside the usual realm of human experience which is distressing can create helplessness, anxiety or panic. Traumatic stressors usually involve a perceived threat to one’s physical safety or someone close to them. This is an intense psychological reaction to feeling threatened, which is completely normal.  Traumatic stress overwhelms coping mechanisms leaving children feeling out of control and helpless. Continual exposure to the trauma creates a survival reaction of being depleted, exhausted, or worse, self-destructive. Children experience traumatic stress differently based on age and maturity level as this guide will outline to help parents and teachers.    Here are the norm

By: Dwight Bain, LMHC, NCC     Here’s How to Help Your Child Cope   Strategies for parents, teachers , and c ounselor s to manag e trau matic stress facing s tudents who are returning to school during the pandemic     One billion students were locked out of classrooms globally when COVID-19 was announced March 13, 2020 in what the United Nations called a “Generational Catastrophe in education.” Today’s students are facing traumatic levels of stress after months of governmental lock downs, sheltering in home and trying to learn remotely with their exhausted parents tying to function as tutors.   School closures blocked access to peers, sports, after-school activities, academic curriculum, and trained teachers. For some this loss of normal routine was managed by extended family and supportive friends – for other children it meant the loss of school lunches, no Internet, and their only access to safe or supportive adults.   This Fall some 60% of schools are reopening wit