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Objective: after the declaration of the COVID-19 pandemic, the consequent confinement and teleworking, this research aimed to investigate the adaptation of mental health professionals to online care. Materials and methods: a descriptive cross-sectional study was carried out through the online distribution of surveys, made up of a sociodemographic questionnaire and multiple-choice questions that allowed characterizing the particularities found in online care. The incidental sample consisted of 491 mental health workers. Results: 50% indicated a very high or high adaptation, and only 11% low adaptation. 92.87% performed online care and 91.45% worked from home, totally or partially. The main difficulties were related to technological aspects and domestic interruptions, while the main advantages were related to saving time and expenses, beyond the preventive aspects. Conclusions: given the good adaptation of the therapists and the profitability of this care modality, it is possible that it persists even when face-to-face is re-enabled. In this way, the importance of incorporating online care with its particularities in the training of psychotherapists.
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Objectives: on the framework of the COVID-19 pandemic and the consequent quarantine, this research aimed to collect the main interventions - "facilitators" - that clinical psychologists have carried out during the quarantine (4 months). Materials end methods: it is a qualitative study, where a sample of 30 professionals from the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires (CABA) was selected, of both sexes, with between 10 and 30 years of clinical experience and different therapeutic affiliations, through a sampling non-probabilistic, intentional, based on the researcher's knowledge of the population of professionals under study. The clinical experience, age, gender and therapeutic model was privileged. They were asked a specific question about what were the main interventions they carried out with their patients at the height of 4 months of quarantine? (July 20 to 30, 2020), listing and explaining a minimum of 5 (five). Results: the facilitators were grouped into categories by similarities of intervention and explanatory content. Of the 150 obtained, joining the different ones and discarding the reiterations, 15 were obtained. Conclusions: the interventions unite reflective philosophy of life and concrete actions to change, relying on some common points such as the perspective of attribution of positive meaning over things, people or situations, empowerment and security, avoid belligerent climates, create and carry out projects for the future, improve relationships with the living environment, reduce uncertainty and levels of aggression, uncertainty, anguish and anxiety.