Abstract
The Little Professor and the Virus: Scaffolding Children's Meaning Making During the COVID-19 Emergency.
Highlights
Specialty section: This article was submitted to Public Mental Health, a section of the journal Frontiers in Psychiatry
Eric Berne used to refer to this precocious intuition of the surrounding world as a Martian thinking, “the naivest possible frame of mind for observing Earthly happenings” [1]. This way of thinking is typical of the psychological Child Ego state called the “Little Professor”, which harbors strategies that the child possesses for solving problems: intuition and prelogical thinking [2]
As the coronavirus disease of the 2019 (Covid-19) is rapidly spreading worldwide, it’s reasonable to assume that even the children’s “Little Professor” is trying to develop a naïve theory of what is happening in the external world by incorporating different information sources
Summary
Specialty section: This article was submitted to Public Mental Health, a section of the journal Frontiers in Psychiatry. The parental scaffolding of meaning-making processes is crucial to help children cope with such unexpected and frightening events, disentangling unclear messages and making order within the large amount of potentially confusing information they receive about the Covid-19 epidemic [5].
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