‘Covid Conversations’ Resources

Making choices

Use these resources to make decisions that will help achieve agency.

• Define your values – here are some online tools to help:
  
  • Personal Values Assessment – Online Test
    
  • Life Values Inventory: a Free values clarification & personal development program
    
  • Determine Your Core Values – quiz
    
  • Psychology Today – Values Profile Test
    
  • Personal Values: How to Know Who You Really Are – Mark Manson

• or read:
  
  • Six Steps To Identify And Align Your Personal Core Values – Forbes

• Read about boundaries here:
  
  • How to Set Healthy Boundaries: 10 Examples + PDF Worksheets – PositivePsychology.com
    
  • 10 Ways to Build and Preserve Better Boundaries: The lowdown on personal boundaries – PsychCentral.com
    
  • Set boundaries: Determine your borders by examining your rights and needs – Healthline.com

• Jump online and play to manage your anxiety
  
  • SuperBetter -a framework that activates the psychological strengths of gameplay to build resilience and success in real life
    
  • 6 Calming Video Games That Give You a Sense of Ultimate Control in This Chaotic World – wellandgood.com

Navigating social media

Use these resources to increase awareness and improve critical thinking.

• Online tools to play with your client to teach critical thinking:
  
  • Crankyuncle.com –  cartoons and critical thinking to fight misinformation
    
  • First Draft Training – free library of training content to help build expertise and stay one step ahead of misinformation.
    
  • Go Viral! – a 5-minute game that helps protect you against Covid-19 misinformation
    
  • Get Bad News – From fake news to chaos! How bad are you? Get as many followers as you can.

• Or you can read more here:
  
  • Coronavirus – COVID-19 Updates and Resources from DkIT Library: Critical thinking – Dundalk Institute of Technology (DkIT)
    
  • Protecting Ourselves from Fake News: Games that Teach about Fake News – Center for Information Technology & Society (CITS)
    
  • 5 quick ways we can all double-check coronavirus information online-First Draft News– First Draft News.org
    
  • 7 ways to avoid misinformation during the coronavirus pandemic – Politifact.com
    
  • Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) advice for the public: Myth busters – Who.int
    
  • Coronavirus Misinformation Tracking Center – NewsGuardTech.com
    
  • Misinformation related to the 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic – Wikipedia.com
    
  • Reducing Stigma – CDC.Gov
    
  • WHO- Instagram – WorldHealthOrganisation / Instagram
    
  • The Case For Critical Thinking: The COVID-19 Pandemic And An Urgent Call To Close The Critical Thinking Gap In Education-Forbes.com
    
  • Critical Thinking Strategies for the COVID-19 Pandemic -Insight assessment.com
    
  • Press Freedom and Journalism During (Covid19) Crisis– Unesco
    
  • Cranky Uncle Blog – scientist providing fact-checking and tips for critical thinking around Covid-19.
    
  • How to make sense of the coronavirus chaos– TechCrunch.com
    
  • Fake News during Covid-19: Setting the record straight– The New Federalist. EU
    
  • COVID-19 Misinformation Remains Difficult To Stop On Social Media – Forbes.com
    
  • Covid-19 Crisis: Don’t Outsource Your Critical Thinking with Christian Hunt | Behavioral Grooves Podcast – BehaviouralGrooves.com
    
  • How not to fall for coronavirus BS: avoid the 7 deadly sins of thought– The conversation.com
    
  • Why smart people believe coronavirus myths – BBC.com
    
  • Evaluating health news– – Public Libraries Online podcast about finding and evaluating health information from some librarians. 
    
  • Covid-19 and Critical Thinking– Cabrini.edu
    
  • COVID-19: Critical Thinking Versus Unreasonable Doubt – Coscienhealth.org
    
  • Critical Thinking & COVID-19: Assessing Claims – reason and meaning.com
    
  • A Perfect Time To End Our STEM Obsession: 3 Ideas For Teaching Critical Thinking At Home During (And After) The Coronavirus Pandemic – Forbes.com

Having hard conversations

Use these resources to have better conversations about tough topics

• Talking to Your Parents or Other Adults – kidshealth.org

Talking about trust

Use these resources to develop trusted relationships and sources

• How to start a doubt club

• Covid resources for children
  
  • Decision aid (5–15 years): Should I get the COVID-19 vaccine for my child? – National Centre for Immunisation Research and Surveillance (NCIRS)
    
  • COVID-19 vaccines for children: How parents are influenced by misinformation, and how they can counter it – The Conversation

Participating in life

Use these resources to better understand certain feelings and how to respond

• 11 tips to cope with anxiety about getting “back to normal” – nhs.uk
  
• Understanding and overcoming post-lockdown anxiety – MedicalNewsToday.com
  
• Coronavirus anxiety: How to cope with life after lockdown – BBC.com
  
• Nervous about socialising again? Here’s how to handle the end of lockdown – theguardian.com
  
• Compare the risks and benefits- Which vaccine would you like to know more about? – National Centre for Immunisation Research and Surveillance (NCIRS)

Going on the journey

Use these resources to find practical support and knowledge.