Читать книгу Essentials of Social Emotional Learning (SEL) - Donna Lord Black - Страница 43

The pandemic of 2020 drove concerns about emotional functioning into the spotlight for people of all ages, but especially for children and youth on whom the impact of social distancing and social isolation had the most debilitating effects. As the virus worsened and spread, the prolonged isolation from being quarantined led to growing concerns for how it was impacting young people’s social and emotional well‐being. These concerns became far more worrisome as the quarantine extended into months. Interestingly, while there also were concerns for the physical health of children and youth, these were perhaps tempered by early reports in which it was originally believed that younger people were less susceptible to contracting the virus. Consequently, worries over their physical safety were less concerning, that is, until the quarantine progressed. As the virus grew and spread, reports of younger people contracting the virus began to emerge and the medical community began to further explore these cases. What they soon discovered was that the virus manifested differently in young people than it did in the older population. Thus, health concerns for children and youth began to rise, and the virus soon became linked to a new inflammatory syndrome with serious implications for young people’s health. Additional information about this syndrome can be explored in detail in Rapid Reference 2.1.