TPP 239: Dr. Aliza Pressman on Experiencing Trauma and Building Resilience in Covid-19
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Full-Tilt Parenting: Strategies, Insights, and Connection for Parents Raising Neurodivergent Children
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What is the focus of this episode on trauma and resilience in COVID‑19?
It's not like if your child comes to you with a problem. The healthy positive relationship is the one where the parent always has the answer. It's that your kid knows they can come to you and you'll sit next to them while they cry. Or you'll say, Can I get you a glass of water? You know, like that your child just knows. You're there for the happy, for the sad, for the angry, for the whole gamut of feelings, and you're not going anywhere.
Welcome to Tilt Parenting, a podcast featuring interviews and conversations aimed at inspiring, informing, and supporting parents raising differently wired kids. I'm your host, Debbie Rieber. Today we are having a powerful and timely conversation on trauma and resilience, a topic I know is weighing heavily on parents' minds as this pandemic continues to stretch on, and we wonder more and more, are the kids going to be okay? To bring some perspective and nuance to this topic, I've invited Dr. Eliza Pressman to the podcast. Eliza is a developmental psychologist, parent educator, assistant clinical professor, and co-founder of Mount Sinai Parenting Center. She's also the host of the popular Raising Good Humans podcast.
In addition to her PhD in developmental psychology, Elisa also received a master's in risk, resilience, and prevention. I can't think of a better guide for this topic. In today's conversation, Eliza shares helpful ways to think about trauma and resilience, especially related to children's experiences during this pandemic, and offers advice and research on the best inoculations, if you will, to protect our children from chronic stress responses and to aid the process of developing resiliency. Lots of food for thought in this one. And now here's my conversation on trauma and resiliency with Elisa Pressman. Hello, Elisa. Welcome to the podcast. Hello. Thank you so much for having me. We were just discussing this is a relevant conversation for this moment in time, but also unfortunately for many months to come.
So I'm really looking forward to this conversation. And before we get into it, I would love if you could just take a few minutes and tell us a little bit more about, you know, your work in the world and maybe what your big picture why is for the work that you do.
Well, my big picture why is an easier one to answer, which is just that when I fell in love with developmental psychology and just thinking about how human beings develop over time. I wondered why so much of the research is. Just not part of our everyday knowledge based. Just how helpful it can be to have information about developing humans to just help us Be parents and caregivers um and teachers. And it seemed like the conversation is typically Surrounding what's wrong with kids. Or what's wrong with parents? And nobody stepping in or participating in the conversations about what's going right or how to support families where they are. And that was kind of my hope. Um so that was where I I and I also I got pregnant with my first child after I had already been in graduate school for a bit of time.
And so I also found it really fascinating how much information or misinformation is out there from just well meaninged advice givers and from family to playgrounds to whatever and I just thought it would be really nice to be able to help families sort through what is evidence based and what's just someone's opinion, which is not less valuable because some people want an opinion from someone they trust and feel like is almost like a mentor, parent, or caregiver. And that's totally fine. Just sometimes it can be couched in this is the this is the only right way. And I wanted to be available to open up that discussion as well.
Very cool. And so tell us a little bit about Y the harder part of that question then. The the day to day work that you do.
So because I'm a developmental psychologist, which is kind of a really bizarre little branch of the field of psychology. Май роль з мачмор едукація. And
How does Dr. Aliza Pressman's background shape her approach to supporting kids?
Research. So Part of my job is I have a private practice um where I have mom groups and parent groups.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is the focus of this episode on trauma and resilience in COVID‑19?
0:01–4:42
2
How does Dr. Aliza Pressman's background shape her approach to supporting kids?
4:42–10:09
3
What distinguishes a traumatic event from normal stress for children?
10:09–16:15
4
Why do most children recover from trauma within a year with supportive relationships?
16:15–21:49
5
How can parents build resilience by being emotionally available and regulated?
21:49–26:30
6
What role do relationships and community play in protecting children from toxic stress?
26:30–31:39
7
How can families promote autonomy and executive‑function skills during and after the pandemic?
31:39–35:58
8
What should parents expect as kids transition back to post‑pandemic life?
35:58–36:57
Speakers
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