April 2020 - Half Full - The Network of Care

How to Support Teachers’ Emotional Needs Right Now

At the end of March, our team at the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence, along with our colleagues at the Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL), launched a survey to unpack the emotional lives of teachers during the COVID...

Published Thu, Apr 30 2020 5:33 AM by Greater Good Articles

How Can a Doctor Stop from Burning Out in the Pandemic?

Over the din of the negative pressure machine, I shouted goodbye to my patient. I zipped my way out of one of the little plastic enclosures in our emergency department (ED). With disgust and a bit of fear, I carefully shed my gloves, gown, and face shield...

Published Wed, Apr 29 2020 6:48 AM by Greater Good Articles

What Happens When You Give People the Benefit of the Doubt

Imagine you made plans with a new friend to talk on the phone. You call, but there’s no answer—and you don’t get a call back. What happened? Perhaps they got held up by caring for their children or a work obligation. Perhaps they didn’t want to meet but...

Published Tue, Apr 28 2020 5:40 AM by Greater Good Articles

How to Stop Feeling So Helpless During Quarantine

On the Internet, the setting of our new coronavirus life, every news site has some graph predicting the future. Every influencer has advice for how to live, and every business has a COVID-19 FAQ section. However, no amount of expertise seems to quiet...

Published Mon, Apr 27 2020 5:01 AM by Greater Good Articles

How to Help Teens Handle the Loss of Proms and Graduations

Yesterday at dinner, one of my children was sad and irritated. She was offended by our mere existence. “What’s wrong with her now?” one of the other kids asked unkindly, to no one in particular. Like many young people around the world, this is a kid who...

Published Thu, Apr 23 2020 5:00 AM by Greater Good Articles

What Happens When We Lose Our Social Rituals?

When the shelter-in-place orders came down in California, the first thing I thought of was my cousin’s wedding—the one I was supposed to officiate. I’d been working on creating a special ceremony since the fall. But once the pandemic kicked in, everything...

Published Wed, Apr 22 2020 4:07 AM by Greater Good Articles

How to Reduce the Stress of Homeschooling on Everyone

With nationwide school closures in effect, many parents are now monitoring homeschooling while at the same time trying to making a living in the midst of a terrible economic crisis. In this environment of broken routine and uncertainty, chances are your...

Published Tue, Apr 21 2020 4:09 AM by Greater Good Articles

How to Protect Your Well-Being at Work During a Crisis

Daily life has changed drastically for people across the globe, including in our work lives. Many of us are now working remotely for the first time, not able to work at all, or working long hours in hazardous conditions. At the same time, we’re facing...

Published Mon, Apr 20 2020 3:58 AM by Greater Good Articles

How to Help Your Marriage Survive Lockdown

Dinner at home was not on the menu when Jennifer Monahan planned her 10th wedding anniversary. But that was before the coronavirus pandemic drove hundreds of millions of couples around the globe indoors and into intensive togetherness, for better or for...

Published Fri, Apr 17 2020 5:07 AM by Greater Good Articles

Stuck at Home? How to Find Awe and Beauty Indoors

The coronavirus snuck up on us, bringing our way of life to a sudden halt. Here we are now, sheltering at home, shocked by the rising death count, worrying about ourselves and those we love. What used to be a cough to clear our throat now leads to hallucinations...

Published Wed, Apr 15 2020 2:22 AM by Greater Good Articles

How to Keep Coronavirus Worries from Disrupting Your Sleep

Many people I know have been complaining lately about losing sleep. It’s no surprise why. All of us are feeling increased stress and worry, and experiencing changes in our work and family life. The novel coronavirus can keep us up at night. What can we...

Published Tue, Apr 14 2020 5:39 AM by Greater Good Articles

What Happy People Think About Luck

Etymologically, the prefix “hap” means luck or fortune, as you might recognize in words like perhaps, happenstance, haphazard, or—most relevant here—happy. Many other languages also show this overlap between “happy” and “lucky.” But what does being happy...

Published Mon, Apr 13 2020 5:00 AM by Greater Good Articles

How Parents Can Help Kids Thrive in an Uncertain Future

When psychologist Madeline Levine wrote The Price of Privilege 14 years ago, she wanted to persuade parents that pushing kids to succeed at any cost was making them suffer. But since then, the rates of anxiety and depression in kids have only increased...

Published Fri, Apr 10 2020 6:44 AM by Greater Good Articles

Can Urban and Rural Americans Get on the Same Page About COVID-19?

The entire United States is grappling with the novel coronavirus pandemic. However, not all areas have been equally affected so far—and there are huge differences between how urban and rural areas have been responding to the threat. According to Gallup...

Published Wed, Apr 08 2020 3:38 AM by Greater Good Articles

Helping Others Can Help You Cope with Lockdown

It’s easy to feel, these days, that we’re swirling in a coronavirus-induced vortex of helplessness. In many regions, COVID-19 case counts are jumping dramatically. Health care workers face impossible decisions about who to disconnect from ventilators...

Published Tue, Apr 07 2020 4:01 AM by Greater Good Articles

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