Pandemic Related Videos/Interview/Webinars and Articles
Videos: Webinars & Interviews
Long Island Business News Healthcare Forum: COVID-19’s Effect on Mental Health
Anti Asian Bias: What Parents Need to Know
Guidance Center Perspectives on Pandemic 2020, July 23, 2020 – Health Disparities and the Pandemic
Vanessa McMullan Guidance Center Perspectives on Pandemic 2020
How Covid-19 has complicated grief, bereavement and loss, with Ed Paley
Breathing and Breath-work for the pandemic and other toxic stress
North Shore Child & Family Guidance Center Webinar: COVID-19 and Your Children’s Mental Health
Part 2 – Dr. Ariel Botta with Andrew Malekoff – Written expressions on Mindfulness. May 26, 2020
Guidance Center Perspectives on Pandemic 2020 with Dr. Paul Liu, MD
Helping Families through Covid-19 (Extended Cut)
A conversation about Mindfulness with Dr. Ariel Botta and Andrew Malekoff
Helping Kids Through COVID 19
Groupwork during the pandemic, with Elissa Smilowitz of North Shore Child & Family Guidance Center
Articles
Checking the Coronavirus Box Score, Published in Blank Slate Media, By Andrew Malekoff
As a child growing up in New Jersey in the 1950's and 60's, one of my favorite things to do when school let out for the year was to get up, ride my bike to the candy store, meet up with friends, pick up a newspaper and check out the baseball box scores from the...
A Quarantine Trendsetter, By Andrew Malekoff, Anton Media, April 13, 2020
In my February column, I wrote about the fact that I had a stem cell transplant in early December 2019, about a month before I heard for the first time about the coronavirus. The transplant entailed getting an unrelated donor’s stem cells to replace mine; then, if all...
Strength In Diversity, By Andrew Malekoff, Anton Media, February 16, 2020
In my August 2019 column titled “Thank You,” I expressed my gratitude for the cancer researchers and practitioners who have been instrumental in getting me through the last 10 years of my life. As I explained, my cancer was responsive to treatment, but it was...
Coronavirus News: Families turning to virtual therapy for kids during COVID-19 crisis By Stacey Sager Tuesday, April 14, 2020
Please click the photo to watch the WABC interview and video. LONG ISLAND (WABC) -- Kids aren't out on the playgrounds, and they aren't inside their schools as a result of COVID-19.Several weeks into this pandemic, some families may be settling into this new norm --...
Guidance Center Responds to Coronavirus Crisis, By Andrew Malekoff, Anton Media, April 22, 2020
As the Coronavirus pandemic has come to dominate a good deal of our daily lives, are we, as Dr. Suzan Song suggests in U.S. News and World Report, “on the brink of a mental health pandemic that our current system is not equipped to handle?” Recent polling by the...
The Nonprofit Scramble, Long Island Business News, April 17, 2020
One of COVID-19’s worst complications for nonprofits is the decimated events calendar. Galas and luncheons – nonprofits’ biggest fundraising vehicles – simply don’t exist in the age of social distancing. Take North Shore Child & Family Guidance Center in Roslyn...
Helping Kids Cope During the Pandemic
Do you feel like your world has been turned upside down? The COVID-19 pandemic is creating an escalation in anxiety, fear and depression for the entire population, both young and old. It’s a traumatic experience for everyone, regardless of whether they were...
“The Weather Channel and COVID-19,” by Andrew Malekoff, Blank Slate Media
One of my favorite phone apps is the Weather Channel. I check it every day, sometimes several times a day, to track the temperature, wind and precipitation in my zip code. If I want to, I can search any zip code anywhere. It helps me to prepare for when I plan to walk...
Dealing with the Stress of the Corona Outbreak and Quarantine
Featuring Elissa Smilowitz, WCWP radio, March 24, 2020 This show is a joint effort of Richard Solomon, Esq., WCWP 88.1FM, the Nassau County Bar Association, and the North Shore Child & Family Guidance Center to help all of us who are currently "sheltering in...
Kids First: Talking with Kids About Coronavirus
By Jenna Kern-Rugile is Director of Communications at North Shore Child Guidance - Blank Slate Media, March 28, 2020 Everyone, regardless of their age, has been thrown for a loop by this strange, new reality we are all living in. The coronavirus — in particular,...
COVID-19
- Covid’s Effects on Mental Health, Long Island Business News, December 18, 2020
- Coronavirus News: Parents struggle with back-to-school decisions amid COVID pandemic, ABC News, By Stacey Sager, August 20, 2020
Making the Case for Telehealth, by Andrew Malekoff, Anton Media, July 16, 2020- Goodbye, germs! A coloring book about staying clean and safe from coronavirus germs
Covid-19 PTSD is Inevitable, Nikki on the Daily blog, July 2, 2020- Coronavirus Anxiety Workbook in English and Spanish
Practice Compassion By Wearing Masks, By Andrew Malekoff, Blank Slate Media, June 15, 2020
Every Day Is Memorial Day, By Andrew Malekoff, Blank Slate Media, May 24, 202
Astonishing COVID-19 numbers for U.S., New York and Long Island, by Andrew Malekoff, Blank Slate Media, May 16, 2020
Give Yourself – and Your Kids – a Break