Dr. Elham Taheri, Department of Clinical Psychology, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences

Preventing psychological injuries

I offer my sincere respect to all dear audiences

Nowadays, we host the uninvited intruder as Corona, which has brought lots of trouble to us.

Of our responsibilities, is helping children due to their more vulnerability than others; we can preventing more psychological injuries, if we manage them well.

The following tips could be essential in this regard:

First of all, be careful, the ability of children for handling stress has not yet improved compared to the adults, so they cannot manage the same stress which adults experience; children are not able to overcome it. In order to reduce their stress in these situations, dear parents please minimize their contact to media by which the related news about corona, its incidence and negative consequences have been delivered.

You acquired all necessary information about corona so far, of which prevention and hygienic recommendations are the most important to protect you, your loved ones and children from this fatal disease.

The second tip is spending some times with your children, play and walk with them which probably you did it less before. These days, this uninvited guest has also provides some opportunities such as spend more time together; so in order to help children's health psychologically, let's listen to them and spend time with children.

And the last tip, let's listen to the feelings, conversations and beliefs of the children deeply from the bottom of heart and try to be a good listener for them. The more our children can talk about their feelings, the better they can manage their stress and anxiety.

The Hope for a Better Tomorrow.