ABSTRACT
This letter discusses the issue of COVID-19 pandemic and mental health considered within the context of adjustment disorder and psychosocial interventions. It is evident that the COVID-19 pandemic is capable of generating multiple psychological effects on the whole of humanity. Next to the uncertainties on the course and the treatment of the disease, apprehensions about one's self and the loved ones getting infected by the virus could well exacerbate anxiety. The pandemic and the measures taken against it introduce the experiences of uncertainty, fear, and anxiety in the presence of physical and social isolation. It is impossible for children not to be perturbed by this pandemic affecting the entire world population. Despite knowing the reactions given by children to traumas and adverse events, not much research has been made on children's response to the conditions of the pandemic. Considering the society as a whole, it will be more appropriate to describe the process as a stressor, rather than a traumatic experience, that disrupts our adaptation to changed life circumstances. The priorities should be focused on the interventions to protect adjustment and to reinstate it when impaired. It is certain that "being mentally more immune" to this pandemic will become possible primarily by well identification of the crisis causing stressors related to economics, disease, isolation and unemployment, determination of the measures to be taken up for safety, alleviation of anxiety by meeting the basic vital needs of the people and integrating the new conditions to live in a rational mode. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2021 APA, all rights reserved)