What can teachers do to help students deal with the chronic stress of the pandemic?
As a counselor, I’ve talked to a lot of teachers and parents who are concerned that this generation of children will be permanently damaged by the stress of living through a global pandemic. But studies of childhood resilience routinely find that even in conditions of intense, ongoing adversity, children can thrive. The young people who manage to flourish against all odds are not exceptional or extraordinary. Rather, they are beneficiaries of what psychologist Ann Masten refers to as “ordinary magic”—protective processes that promote competence and healthy adaptation and that happen almost anywhere.
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