Podcast - Helping Children and Families Manage and Cope with Stress During COVID-19

Helping Children and Families Manage and Cope with Stress During COVID-19

April 9, 2020

SRNA is joined by Ana M. Hernandez, MS, CBIS and Lana Harder, PhD, ABPP for an Ask the Expert Podcast on “Helping Children and Families Manage and Cope with Stress During COVID-19.” The podcast begins with the experts giving stress management techniques for adults and children experiencing stress due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The experts discuss homeschooling and parenting, how to manage family dynamics, and ways to practice self-care.

Online Reading Resources for Kids

Time for Kids is for children in K-6th grade and touches on a variety of social issues in a format that keeps reading interesting for kids. Time for Kids has several articles on COVID-19 by grade level, and their digital library is free for the rest of the 2019-2020 school year.
A Kids Book About COVID-19 Free is a downloadable book for kids, written by Malia Jones who is a social epidemiologist, that focuses on facts like hand washing, how a virus works, how germs spread, and how we can work together. The book is available for free.

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About Our Guest Speakers

Ana M. Hernandez, MS, CBIS

Children’s Health^SM,Children’s Medical Center

Ana Hernandez earned her Master’s in Clinical Psychology in 2003 from Barry University in Miami Shores, Florida and became a Certified Brain Injury Specialist (CBIC) in 2011. She completed her internship at Children’s Psychiatric Center in Miami, Florida where she worked with children, adolescents, and families in a variety of contexts including individual and group therapy, as well as psychological testing. She joined Children’s Medical Center in 2007 as an Assessment Specialist in the Perot Family Center for the Care of Brain and Nerve Injuries, a clinical research program for children with brain and nerve injuries. She presently works within Neuropsychology conducting neurobehavioral testing for research looking at a variety of conditions that affect neuropsychological functioning and neurodevelopment, such as pediatric traumatic brain injury, extreme prematurity, low birth weight, pediatric cardiac arrest, and rare brain disorders.

Lana Harder, PhD, ABPP

University of Texas Southwestern, Children’s Medical Center Dallas

Dr. Lana Harder completed her doctoral training at the University of Texas in Austin, Texas and completed her pre-doctoral internship at the Kennedy Krieger Institute and Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland. She completed her post-doctoral fellowship in Pediatric Neuropsychology at Texas Children’s Hospital and Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas. Since 2008, Dr. Harder has served as a Clinical Neuropsychologist at Children’s Medical Center Dallas (CMCD) and as Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Assistant Professor of Neurology and Neurotherapeutics at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center. She is board certified in Clinical Neuropsychology and specializes in the neuropsychological evaluation of pediatric patients, from infancy to young adults, with disorders of the central nervous system. Dr. Harder serves as the neuropsychologist for the CMCD Pediatric Demyelinating Diseases Clinic. Research interests include cognitive and psychosocial outcomes for pediatric multiple sclerosis (MS), transverse myelitis, including acute flaccid myelitis (TM and AFM), acute disseminated encephalomyelitis (ADEM), clinically isolated syndrome (CIS), and neuromyelitis optica (NMO).

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