Lauren Busfield reminds us that the policy of limiting children’s access to the Internet—advocated for years by educators and health officials—has been turned on its head by the COVID-19 pandemic. The fact that in the year 2020, our children’s education and social lives exist mostly online has become a reality that we were not ready to face. How do parents and helping professionals adjust to the newfound importance of technology to our children’s well-being?
As David Prescott, publisher of The New Circle, says in this article, five months into what is clearly a long journey, the emphasis is shifting from how we are going to live through the pandemic to how we are going to live with it for the foreseeable future. His article is about how COVID-19 has forced us to re-examine virtually every aspect of the structures underlying our practice.
Phil Rich, editor-in-chief of The New Circle, introduces the 2nd issue, welcomes the authors, and summarizes the goals of the articles in the Helping Professions, Helping Interventions, and Childhood Adversity departments, while directing our attention to the common, and timely, theme running through the articles—the additional challenges presented by the COVID-19 pandemic and the socio-economic and social stress felt across the United States.
In the Caption This section of The New Circle, we will publish an uncaptioned cartoon for readers to think about and have fun imagining possible captions.
