is professor and clinical psychologist and the department of psychiatry at the university of british columbia in vancouver and he's also the author of the psychology of pandemics preparing for the next global outbreak of infectious diseases it's so good to have you with us let me start by asking you do you cope with the pandemic. well it's important to set a structure for yourself and to set realistic expectations as we know those pandemic will be eventual be over we don't know when but it is trying keep on with your life as normally as you possibly can so but some people find the very difficult what would you say is worse for our psyche in such a situation having to deal with an invisible but potentially lethal virus or having to give up our social habits well it depends on the person some people have no problem giving up this the social habits they quite happy to sit at home other people find it very difficult so very much differs from person to person. people are experiencing this pandemic in different ways to some people the biggest concern of the socio economic impacts like not

is professor and clinical psychologist and the department of psychiatry at the university of british columbia in vancouver and he's also the author of the psychology of pandemics preparing for the next global outbreak of infectious diseases it's so good to have you with us let me start by asking you do you cope with the pandemic. well it's important to set a structure for yourself and to set realistic expectations as we know those pandemic will be eventually over we don't know when but it is trying with your life as normally as you possibly can so but some people find that very difficult what would you say is worse for our psyche in such a situation having to deal with an invisible but potentially lethal virus or having to give up our social habits well it depends on the person some people have no problem giving up this the social habits are quite happy to sit at home other people find it very difficult so very much differs from person to person. people are experiencing this pandemic in different ways to some people the biggest concern of the socio economic impacts like not having a

is professor and clinical psychologist and the department of psychiatry at the university of british columbia in vancouver and he's also the author of the psychology of pandemics preparing for the next global outbreak of infectious diseases it's so good to have you with us let me start by asking you do you cope with the pandemic. well it's important to set a structure for yourself and to set realistic expectations as we know those pandemic will be eventual be over we don't know when but it is trying keep on with your life as normally as you possibly can so but some people find the very difficult what would you say is worse for our psyche in such a situation having to deal with an invisible but potentially lethal virus or having to give up our social habits well it depends on the person some people have no problem giving up this the social habits are quite happy to sit at home other people find it very difficult so it very much differs from person to person. people are experiencing this pandemic in different ways for some people the biggest concern of the socio economic impacts like n

is professor and clinical psychologist and the department of psychiatry at the university of british columbia in vancouver and he's also the author of the psychology of pandemics preparing for the next global outbreak of infectious diseases it's so good to have you with us let me start by asking you do you cope with the pandemic. well it's important to set a structure for yourself and to set realistic expectations as we know this pandemic will be eventual be over we don't know when but it is trying keep on with your life as normally as you possibly can so but some people find the very difficult what would you say is worse for our psyche in such a situation having to deal with an invisible but potentially lethal virus or having to give up our social habits well it depends on the person some people have no problem giving up this the social habits they quite happy to to sit at home other people find it very difficult so very much differs from person to person. people are experiencing this pandemic in different ways to some people the biggest concern of the socio economic impacts like no

is professor and clinical psychologist and the department of psychiatry at the university of british columbia in vancouver and he's also the author of the psychology of pandemics preparing for the next global outbreak of infectious diseases it's so good to have you with us let me start by asking you do you cope with the pandemic. well it's important to set a structure for yourself and to set realistic expectations as we know those pandemic will be eventual be over we don't know when but it is trying keep on with your life as normally as you possibly can so but some people find that very difficult what would you say is worse for our psyche in such a situation having to deal with an invisible but potentially lethal virus or having to give up our social habits well it depends on the person some people have no problem giving up this the social habits are quite happy to sit at home other people find it very difficult so very much differs from person to person. people are experiencing this pandemic in different ways to some people the biggest concern of the socio economic impacts like not

is professor and clinical psychologist and the department of psychiatry at the university of british columbia in vancouver and he's also the author of the psychology of pandemics preparing for the next global outbreak of infectious diseases it's so good to have you with us let me start by asking you do you cope with the pandemic. well it's important to set a structure for yourself and to set realistic expectations as we know those pandemic will be eventual be over we don't know when but it is trying keep on with your life as normally as you possibly can so but some people find the very difficult what would you say is worse for our psyche in such a situation having to deal with an invisible but potentially lethal virus or having to give up our social habits well it depends on the person some people have no problem giving up this the social habits are quite happy to sit at home other people find it very difficult so very much differs from person to person. people are experiencing this pandemic in different ways to some people the biggest concern of the socio economic impacts like not h

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so let's talk a bit more about to death lydia humaneness yorks is associate professor of the department of psychiatry and forensic medicine at the autonomous university of barcelona and she's also been part of a research team looking into the deaths and mourning process in the times of the corona virus pandemic which you have you with us let me start with the assumption western society tends to ignore the fact that we're mortal has the pandemic changed that yes. yes definitely this the whole of that on some means that we are responding to you know that until it's ironic but these critics asked to make things that he and i have. now and then he's foreseeing sourcing and changing our consciousness or our usa humans are martyrs. and those that have been closer to someone in effect. you know ready have meetings change and those that are you are a few bones home super seized in this movie heartily we have a new challenge is to gather and kirsner some exactly and of course i mean those who've experienced it and we've just seen that also in the reports many couldn't say goodbye to the dying re

hr deserves center as well as the decision of the department to change the compensation structure to be more competitive and that has been significant enough being able to recruit some really talented doctors to our team. >> i'm encouraged by our optimism and add thanks to the hr department and others and understanding how overworked some of the folks who are there and impact the moral. pleplease extend the commissionr their hard and dedicated work. >> i appreciate that. >> thank you and thank you both to ms. simmons for your presentations. i know that it's got to be as difficult as you have ever imagined to operate under these conditions budge tarily. i had a question, my comment on that as it relates to one of your priorities around workforce and we're going to be able to expect some movement versus what we might not expectations that we would like to meet and so i just want to support and support hr in that effort but we all know how difficult it is with the supply of qualified workforce and so, just want to acknowledge that i know that you are trying and i am happy that that prio

hr deserves center as well as the decision of the department to change the compensation structure to be more competitive and that has been significant enough being able to recruit some really talented doctors to our team. >> i'm encouraged by our optimism and add thanks to the hr department and others and understanding how overworked some of the folks who are there and impact the moral. pleplease extend the commissionr their hard and dedicated work. >> i appreciate that. >> thank you and thank you both to ms. simmons for your presentations. i know that it's got to be as difficult as you have ever imagined to operate under these conditions budge tarily. i had a question, my comment on that as it relates to one of your priorities around workforce and we're going to be able to expect some movement versus what we might not expectations that we would like to meet and so i just want to support and support hr in that effort but we all know how difficult it is with the supply of qualified workforce and so, just want to acknowledge that i know that you are trying and i am happy that that prio