Chandra Grabill OHIS

Partial Transcript: I grew up in Indianapolis, Indiana. I have two older sisters and a younger brother. Grew up with both my parents, both my parents were married... I think growing up, our family was pretty close and that I was really close with my siblings. I spent a lot of time with my two sisters and my brother. My father was a college professor, and he was pretty involved growing up, did a lot of the things for us in terms of taking us to music lessons and dance lessons and things because his schedule than my mother's. My mother was home with us when I was little and then in elementary school she started to work in an office, and so she worked pretty much 8-5, and my father's schedule was more flexible.

Keywords: family; family life; indiana; professor; siblings

Partial Transcript: Probably in January... I don't remember the exact time I started to hear about it, but it seems like faint glimpses in the news as things were happening in China in January. I think it probably became a little more in my awareness that it was traveling and spreading out of Asia in late February, early March as people were starting to talk more about it. And then, I think when we first started talking about it as something that could happen here in the US, I think there were a lot of jokes that first came out, particularly related to our government's response.

Segment Synopsis: Chandra talks about her early awareness of COVID-19, her initial response, and the moment it began to affect everyday life.

Keywords: coronavirus; government; jokes; march; travel

Partial Transcript: That's not something I'd ever done before I moved to my teletherapy. As a psychologist, part of the value of the work is really being in the same room with someone. I've always worked in settings before where I've seen people face to face, in the same room, which is good just for building relationships, but also handling crises that can come up.

Segment Synopsis: Chandra reflects on changes in her personal life, as well as the transition to teletherapy.

Keywords: essential work; psychology; public health; social distancing; teletherapy; therapy; work from home

Partial Transcript: Having clients suddenly come into my home was a really strange thing. One of the things that, as a psychologist, I always have really tried to do is maintain boundaries between my personal life and my work life. What that means is that clients don't typically know a whole lot about my personal life; they don't know where I live, most of them don't know much about my family, they don't know whether I have pets or anything-- with my child cases they do, but most my clients don't really know a lot about me. And suddenly, they were seeing me in a different space, so that was a little bit strange.

Keywords: kids; privacy; relationship building; relationships; technology; teletherapy; transition

Partial Transcript: With clients, we've had to talk a little bit about the best way to work for them. Clients have been creative with their own setups. Some clients have asked family, if they're with family members or roommates, they've asked them to go take a walk during that time. Some clients have chosen to meet in their car, and they go out in the car, or they sit in the car in the garage and that way they can have wifi connection. So kind of had to talk about different ways to help clients get some privacy. But it's taken much more creativity than we normally would.

Segment Synopsis: Chandra discusses the strategies used, both by her and by her clients, to create privacy and safety for her clients.

Keywords: adaptation; confidentiality; flexible; privacy; space-making

Partial Transcript: What people want to do when they're suffering, often, is they want to connect with others. They want to be able to get hugs, get physical contact with people, be in the same space as others. There's a reason why when people are grieving or stressed, they often want to be around others. And so the thing that's stressing people out the most is that they are not able to connect with people in person. So I think social distancing has been really, really hard.

Keywords: comfort; connection; facetime; fear; isolation; safety; time; touch; zoom

Partial Transcript: I think for me personally, I think there was certainly 9/11 as a life-changing, defining moment in my personal history. I think that was a time where seeing vivid images on TV, in social media, talking about life before and after, kind of a sense of safety. But I feel like this is even more dramatic in that it's prolonged, and it's impacting the entire world, whereas 9/11 impacted the United States and Western countries. But to have something that has happened on a global scale of coronavirus is unlike anything that I've seen in my lifetime.

Segment Synopsis: Chandra reflects on COVID-19's place in history, as well as the lasting effects that she expects to see long into the future.

Keywords: 9/11; WWI; WWII; coronavirus; generation; historical events; history