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Title: Mental Health of Chinese Children and Teenagers after Covid 19 Quarantine

Date: September 7th 2021

Time: 11am - 12pm EST

Location: Online via Zoom

This event has been approved for 1 Continuing Education Credits by the CCPA.

Webinar:

After Covid 19 started in Wuhan China, the whole country went into compulsory quarantine. Quarantine started on most of the cities on January 23, 2020. This was the week of Chinese New year celebration and during the second mayor school holidays for Chinese students. Students weren't able to return to presencial classes until June 2020. And they were required to attend online classes with other 50/60 classmates using an online platform that didn't allow interactions with teacher or classmates. So they were passive listening classes during a school day of 8 or more hours. Many open the online platform but they did others things during classes. The use of cellphone and computer games increased, their sleep time was altered, and after they were required to go back to school many showed depression symptoms, sleep problem, social anxiety and school avoidance. A group therapy and family approach was developed to provide psychological care and decrease the symptoms. this approach is still being used at Shanxi province and had been showing good results decreasing symptoms and reducing the school avoidance.

About the Presenter:

My Name is Alejandra Castro I am Argentinean and I had live and work in China as a counselor for 13 years. I study at Venezuelan Rafael Urdaneta University graduating from Clinical Psychology in 1995, Gestalt group therapist from Venezuelan Gestalt Institute graduated 1998, M.A Counseling from Palo Alto University graduating 2016. Trust Based Relational Intervention Practitioner from Texas Christian University graduating on 2017. I practice in Chinese language seeing kids and teenagers at the clinical psychology department in Jin Zhong First hospital at Shanxi Province, we do individual and group therapy, training to doctors and nurses and parents support group, I also train psychiatric and counseling master students of Shanxi University and lead a parents support group for parents and caregivers of children with Cerebral Palsy. I am adoptive mom and I have a son with cerebral palsy so I have a passion to help parents with kids with disabilities especially in China where there isn't too many resources for kids with special needs. China counseling is underdeveloped so I love to partnership with Chinese colleagues to serve as a counselor and provide ways for their profesional formation.

 

-Email zfraser@ccpa-accp.ca for more information. 

LUNCH & LEARN - Mental Health of Chinese Children and Teenagers after the Covid-19 Quarantine

  • Tuesday Sep 07 2021, 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM