Austin – it may be difficult to address the effect and destruction of the recent Texas floods, regardless of the age group. But with children, a certain sensitivity is necessary when talking about such tragedies.
Dr. Lauri Beck, Professor of Sociology at the University of Colorado in Buldar and director of the Natural Risk Center, gave advice on how to deal with such a heavy topic with children. Peek is reflected in the lessons learned from children who endured Hurricane Katrina in 2005.
Below is a copy of the Peek conversation with the meteorologist KXAN KRISTEN CURRIEE.
Korean: The tragedy that has been revealed with the floods of independence day is difficult for everyone, adults, but also children. So join today to talk more about how to address such a heavy topic is Dr. Lori Beck. Doctor, talk to me about where we start even when it comes to dealing with such a painful topic with children.
Cholit: Children constitute nearly a quarter of our population here in the United States, but often, young people are ignored in disasters. I am mostly talking about children who grow a little and may see TV, you may have heard the radio when it is in the car with the family. They hear about these disasters, know that they are talking, and they do not talk about it is not the best way.
Cholit: One of the things that sociologists and psychologists have learned over the years is that children understand disasters. They see them reveal in their world. In the era of social media and the media everywhere, they are exposed to disaster loss. So if we don’t talk about it, this is not good for anyone. Listening and speaking can be a really important entry point to start these important conversations.
Korean: Some of your advice comes from a previous natural disaster, Hurricane Katrina, what you studied and what you learned. Talk to me a little
Which – which.
Cholit: After Hurricane Katrina, my colleagues and I launched a long -term study, as children and their families have followed nearly a decade. After that storm, we were really interested, again, what are the things that the parents, grandparents and careerships, as well as schools, religious institutions and other organizations that support children, what can they do to help them recover after the disaster? We have learned many of both children themselves as well as adults in their lives. Thus, things learned about how important the routine is for children. It is important to return children to a routine as soon as possible, but it is also important to be flexible, because disasters and their effects often require flexibility, because everything is disrupted.
Cholit: We have learned over time that they often hidden their feelings and emotions from adults in their lives because they saw how their parents were trying to recover. They saw that their teachers lost their home, but they also returned to the semester. Thus, many of the things that we heard over and over again were from the children we were following was that they were trying to protect adults in their lives by not participating in their own shocks, but then that was that children did not always have an outlet to share what they were doing
They were feeling.
Korean: We appreciate you to be here and share this advice. Dr. Lori Beck, thank you very much.
Cholit: Thank you very much. And the withdrawal of all the people of Texas, especially the country of the hill, well.