Ellen H. O'Donnell
Cognoscenti contributor
Ellen H. O’Donnell, Ph.D., is a pediatric psychologist at MassGeneral Hospital for Children and an assistant professor at Harvard Medical School. She is also co-author, with Rev. Molly Baskette, senior minister of First Church Berkeley UCC in Berkeley, Calif., of "Bless This Mess: A Modern Guide to Faith and Parenting in a Chaotic World" (Convergent: August 2019).
Recently published
College may look different for your pandemic-era kid. That's OK
Ellen O'Donnell is familiar with college-related anxiety in her job as a pediatric psychologist. But now her own son is applying to schools, two years into the pandemic. If we’re...
What's missing in our debate over vaccinating kids
Why should you vaccinate your child? About a million reasons, writes Ellen H. O'Donnell, starting with this.
Kids Are Returning To School. But Let’s Avoid A Return To Academic Pressure
Suddenly, we’re in a race to pick up where we left off, to catch up to the pace we were at when school abruptly closed in March 2020, writes Ellen...
What Resilience During The Pandemic Really Means
While the oldest among us may get the sickest, it’s our kids who will experience the ripple effects of these generational traumas for far longer, writes Ellen H. O'Donnell.
The Kids May Not Be All Right. And That's OK
We need to give teens and young adults permission to grieve all they are missing, writes pediatric psychologist Ellen H. O'Donnell.
Advertisement