Children and COVID-19: How to help kids cope and practice safety

Medical X-Press – Staff Writer

Many children may be confused and frightened about the COVID-19 pandemic, but parents can do a lot to help children cope and stay safe during the outbreak, a University of Mississippi psychology professor advises. Stephanie Miller is also director of experimental training in the Department of Psychology and research director of the Cognition Underlying Behavior Lab, where she studies the development and cognitive processes of young children. She serves as principal investigator for a research study looking at how toddlers begin to control behavior and solve problems, supported by a $100,000 grant from the National Institutes of Health’s Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development.

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