When the World Feels
Like a
Scary Place
Essential Conversations for Anxious
Parents and Worried Kids
An urgent and necessary book, When the World Feels Like a Scary Place brings solutions to a problem that is only going to get worse. In this book, Dr. Abi discusses how bad things happening in the world affect our children, and how we can raise engaged and confident kids in spite of them.
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How to talk to children about war in Ukraine
Parents have to expect kids will see horrific images from Ukraine. Unless one has sworn off all technology, the horrific images from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine are unavoidable. They’re on TV. In your phone. Scattered across websites and played out on social media. Given the avalanche of information, how should parents address the war with their children? What should they say? How should they act?
To get those answers, ASU News talked to Abigail Gewirtz, a Foundation Professor in Arizona State University’s Department of Psychology whose research examines ways to strengthen families affected by traumatic stressors.
Dr. Abigail Gewirtz is a child psychologist, leading expert on families under stress, mother of four, and the author of When the World Feels Like a Scary Place, published by Workman in July, 2020.
Dr. Abi is a Foundation Professor in the Department of Psychology at Arizona State University. Previously, Dr. Abi was a Lindahl Leadership Professor in the Department of Family Social Science and the Institute of Child Development at the University of Minnesota, where she has devoted her career to developing and testing award-winning, skills-based parenting programs that promote children’s resilience.