When one gets right down to it, consider your child as a mini-me.
You may be feeling stress over the COVID crisis, and so is your child.
Justine McNulty, a social worker with the Arnprior Family Health Team says kids’ emotional responses to COVID-19 can be understood as a grief reaction and their questions can be summarized by the 4 C’s.
What is the cause of this? Can I catch this? Is there a cure for this?
Who will take care of me?
McNulty says there are age-appropriate resources, many of which are just a click away.
She says if delving deeper is what’s called for, the Arnprior Family Health Team continues to offer free 30 minute single session mental health support for anyone that is a patient of a family doctor on the team. Call 613-622-5763.
The Phoenix Centre is also a good resource, available at 1-800-465-1879.
