Impact of Covid-19 on children & teenagers
Here you can find resources related to the pandemic’s impact on the mental health of children and teenagers.
Click on the resources’ titles to see short descriptions, the links and the available languages.
Teen Voices: Coping with the Pandemic
This is a video resource where it is possible to hear from actual teens how the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted their lives – in both positive and negative ways.
DEVELOPER: MindWise Innovations
EN
EVIDENCE: CLICK HERE
The Impact of COVID-19 on Children and Families
This Webinar explores the complex mental health, educational and access to care impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on children and families.
DEVELOPER: The National Center for Disaster Medicine and Public Health
EN
EVIDENCE: CLICK HERE
Psychosocial Support for Children during COVID-19 A Manual for Parents and Caregivers
The purpose of this manual is to provide parents, caregivers, support persons, and children and adolescent themselves, a tool that will enable them to understand what is COVID-19 and how it can be prevented, help them manage related stress, fear and anxiety, and recognize the increased risk of violence, which can help them to stay safe.
DEVELOPER: Childline & Unicef
EN
EVIDENCE: CLICK HERE
My Hero is You, How kids can fight COVID-19
The book aims to help children understand and come to terms with COVID-19. With the help of a fantasy creature, Ario, “My Hero is You, How kids can fight COVID-19!” explains how children can protect themselves, their families and friends from coronavirus and how to manage difficult emotions when confronted with a new and rapidly changing reality. It has been produced by a collaboration of more than 50 organizations working in the humanitarian sector.
DEVELOPER: Inter-Agency Standing Committee Reference Group on Mental Health and Psychosocial Support in Emergency Settings
EN, GR, BG, IT, SLO
EVIDENCE: CLICK HERE
Educational Handbook for Youth Empowerment for the Prevention of Gender-Based Violence through Peer Education
The Manual provides teachers, education practitioners, and youth workers, with the knowledge and the tools needed to plan and implement Youth4Youth training workshops for young people. It contains comprehensive information on the theoretical and practical framework of the programme alongside session plans, activity resources and evaluation tools.The manual has been developed within the framework of the transnational project Youth4Youth: Empowering Young People in Preventing Gender-based Violence through Peer Education
DEVELOPER: Mediterranean Institute of Gender Studies
EN, GR, IT
EVIDENCE: CLICK HERE
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on children’s mental health and wellbeing, and beyond: A scoping review
This reports on analyses the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on children’s mental health and wellbeing, and the resources needed to assist them in these difficult times. The findings point out the impacts of the pandemic on the mental health and wellbeing of children hailing from different socio-economic backgrounds, as well as the impacts on families and schools. It also highlight how lockdown, quarantine, social distancing, social media and the measures needed to prevent the spread of infection affected children’s mental health and wellbeing.
DEVELOPER: Journal of Childhood, Education & Society
EN
EVIDENCE: CLICK HERE
Impacts of lockdown on the mental health and wellbeing of children and young people
This overview of evidence considers empirical studies of the mental health and wellbeing impacts of lockdown during both the COVID-19 pandemic and during similar health-related disasters in the past. We consider the empirical evidence of impacts across three areas:
1) direct impacts on children and young people’s mental health and wellbeing;
2) impacts within the family context; and
3) impacts within the context of education.
DEVELOPER: Mental Health Foundation
EN
EVIDENCE: CLICK HERE
The Ignored Pandemic The Dual Crises of Gender-Based Violence and COVID-19
Gender Based Violence (GBV) is a global pandemic existing in all social groups across the globe, yet it has largely been ignored in the COVID-19 response and recovery plans. It is evident that the COVID-19 pandemic has intensified GBV, including domestic violence and intimate partner violence amongst other forms of violations. As this paper shows, GBV is an ignored pandemic that needs a systemic and intersectional response more than ever.
DEVELOPER: OXFAM
EN
EVIDENCE: CLICK HERE
Violence against children and adolescents in the time of COVID-19
Report on domestic violence against minors during Covid 19, prevention and psychological support.
DEVELOPER: OXFAM
EN
EVIDENCE: CLICK HERE
Gender-Based Violence and COVID-19
To prevent and address GBV, the UNDP works on dedicated actions and strategies, which are outlined in 1st section of this briefing note. UNDP Country Offices, UN sister agencies and other partners contributed to addressing GBV by ensuring that their broader interventions to cope with the COVID-19 crisis can help enhance the protective factors to prevent GBV (see section 2). This briefing also provides cross-cutting considerations to be mainstreamed across every intervention (see section 3 of the briefing note).
DEVELOPER: UNDP
EN
EVIDENCE: CLICK HERE
The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Children’s Mental Health What We Know So Far
To prevent and address GBV, the UNDP works on dedicated actions and strategies, which are outlined in 1st section of this briefing note. UNDP Country Offices, UN sister agencies and other partners contributed to addressing GBV by ensuring that their broader interventions to cope with the COVID-19 crisis can help enhance the protective factors to prevent GBV (see section 2). This briefing also provides cross-cutting considerations to be mainstreamed across every intervention (see section 3 of the briefing note).
DEVELOPER: UNDP
EN
EVIDENCE: CLICK HERE
MY BODY IS MY OWN: Claiming the right to autonomy and self-determination
The report reveals how serious many of the shortfalls in bodily autonomy are; many have worsened under the pressures of the COVID-19 pandemic. Right now, for instance, record numbers of women and girls are at risk of gender-based violence and harmful practices such as early marriage. The report also outlines solutions that are already at hand, while making the point that success requires much more than a disconnected series of projects or services, as important as these may be.
DEVELOPER: UNFPA
EN
EVIDENCE: CLICK HERE
Mental care in a helplessness situation Coronavirus SARS-Cov-2 for Children and Adolescents
Effects of the pandemic on children’s and teenagers’ mental health.
DEVELOPER: “Systemic Thining & Psychotherapy” Journal
EN GR
EVIDENCE: CLICK HERE