How are you dealing with coronavirus fears?
Thank your worry, but don’t let it consume you. Keep wiping down surfaces – here’s how the professionals do it. The effect of the news cycle on sexual assault survivors. And how southern Australia – and southern King County – are trying to stop youth homelessness before it starts.
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Rian Roberson, Coronavirus fears
How are you dealing with your coronavirus anxiety? We don’t have a clear understanding of what’s happening with the virus, but we can understand what’s happening within our minds and bodies, says therapist Rian Roberson. She says that fear and anxiety are different, and while we should thank our systems for both responses there are things that can help calm our sense of dread.
Crime Scene Cleaners Northwest
How do you clean up after a virus? We asked Katie Herrick, senior project manager at Crime Scene Cleaners Northwest, how her work has gone from CVU to COVID.
Sexual assault in the news
Psychologist Emily Dworkin is an acting assistant professor at the University of Washington School of Medicine. She studies how community and culture affect trauma survivors – and in the past few months, accusations and convictions from Kobe Bryant to Harvey Weinstein have kept sexual assault front and center in the news. How should survivors approach the barrage of news?
Neal Morton, Jeelong Project
There are almost 10-thousand homeless students in King County public schools. School is often the first responder to homelessness. A project in Jeelong, Australia is trying to change the approach, by focusing on preventing students from become homeless in the first place. Seattle Times education lab reporter Neal Morton has been following the story, and explains how the project works and why one South King County district will be giving it a try.
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Bill Radke
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Bill hosts Week In Review and Words in Review. After starting with KUOW as a University of Washington student in 1985, Bill was KUOW's morning host in the '90s and the creator of past show, Rewind, a news-satire show heard on KUOW and nationwide on NPR. Bill moved away to Southern California to host American Public Media's Weekend America and Marketplace Morning Report and returned to KUOW in 2012.
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