Psychological intervention for three COVID patients who suffered online violence.

Three patients diagnosed with COVID-19 were all young women in their thirties who have suffered from Internet violence in their personal life after hospitalization. They showed significant emotional distress such as, depression state, acute stress disorder, and dissociative disorder. The current study adopts short-term, individualized and comprehensive psychological interventions, including psychological support, encouragement, listening, safety confirmation, catharsis, psychological suggestion, and stimulation of internal potential to treat patients. The third case was provided with psychological interventions combined with antipsychotic treatment. After timely psychological interventions all three patients achieved sound results.Copyright © 2021 Chinese Medical Journals Publishing House Co.Ltd.

An investigation of transformational leadership practices utilized to create an affirmative school culture amid post traumatic events such as COVID-19

This phenomenological qualitative research aimed to examine transformational leadership practices that cultivate an affirmative school culture amid post-traumatic events such as Covid19. The study explored the extent to which crisis management was incorporated within the school safety plan. This research was grounded in two theoretical frameworks, Bridges' (2009) Transition Model and Scharmer's (2017) Theory U, focusing on the social-emotional effects of change throughout the public health crisis. Educational leaders in the Northeastern region of the United States were interviewed. The research gathered the participant's perception of a school's culture and crisis management as a public health crisis disrupted traditional instruction and leadership.The study found that cultivating collaborative relationships rooted in shared vision and trust was fundamental to creating an affirmative school culture. Additionally, the study revealed the significance of creating culturally responsive school safety plans grounded in the historical context of the community's shared lived experiences. Finally, the research highlights how the Covid-19 global pandemic presented an opportunity for educational leaders and stakeholders to develop culturally responsive support systems and structures, which created learning partnerships. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved)

The Rapid Evolution of Crisis Mental Health Services in Utah: Opportunities and Challenges as a Result of the Global Pandemic.

Our country is facing a resurgence of behavioral health crises from over the past 30 years, further illuminated and exacerbated by the global COVID-19 pandemic. Increasing suicide crises among youths over recent decades, untreated anxiety and depression, and serious mental illness are signs of the need for improvements in accessible, affordable, timely, and comprehensive behavioral health services. Against the backdrop of high suicide rates and low behavioral health services in Utah, statewide collaborators aligned with a common goal: deliver crisis services to anyone, anytime, and anywhere. After its initiation in 2011, the integrated behavioral health crisis response system continued to expand and excel, ultimately improving access and referral to services, flattening suicide rates, and reducing stigma. The global pandemic further motivated the expansion of Utah's crisis response system. This review focuses on the unique experiences of the Huntsman Mental Health Institute as a catalyst and partner in these changes. Our goals are to: inform about unique Utah partnerships and actions in the crisis mental health space, describe initial steps and outcomes, highlight continuing challenges, discuss pandemic-specific barriers and opportunities, and explore the long-term vision to improve quality and access to mental health resources.

Compassionate mental healthcare relies on a valued workforce

A healthy and valued workforce is vital for safe and compassionate mental healthcare. That was my take-home from the recent senior leadership symposium on advancing and sustaining the mental health nursing workforce.

Effects of COVID-19 on School Nurse Mental Health Intervention Practices.

Mental health issues have been exacerbated by COVID-19; therefore we examined how the school nurses' role in addressing mental health changed during the pandemic. We administered a nationwide survey in 2021, guided by the Framework for the 21st Century School Nurse, and analyzed self-reported changes in mental health interventions by school nurses. Most mental health practice changes after the start of the pandemic occurred in the care coordination (52.8%) and community/public health (45.8%) principles. An overall decrease in students visiting the school nurse's office (39.4%) was seen, yet the frequency of students visiting with mental health concerns had increased (49.7%). Open-ended responses indicated that school nurse roles changed due to COVID-19 protocols, including decreased access to students and changes in mental health resources. These insights into the role of school nurses in addressing student mental health during public health disasters have important implications for future disaster preparedness efforts.

COVID-19 pandemic and the impact of cross-cultural differences on crisis management: A conceptual model of transcultural crisis management

In this paper, leadership tasks and stakeholder response during transboundary crisis management are analyzed based on findings from Hofstede's study, GLOBE Project, and theoretical concepts in cross-cultural management. Accordingly, a conceptual model of transcultural crisis management is proposed. Seven propositions (P) and sixteen sub-propositions (SP) are developed and then tested using the case method. The case of the COVID-19 pandemic is studied to note the effects of cross-cultural differences and intercultural communication in the pre-crisis, crisis, and post-crisis stages. Cross-cultural differences are found to affect sense-making, decision-making, sense-giving and meaning-making during pre-crisis and crisis management stages. Implications of these findings and further research agenda are discussed. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved)

Evaluating a telehealth single-session consultation service for clients on psychotherapy wait-lists

Outpatient mental health clinics across the country are struggling to meet acute demand for mental health services, resulting in months-long waitlists for people seeking care. Providing evidence-based, single-session interventions to treatment-seeking individuals while they are waiting for treatment may help address this crisis. One such intervention, the Single-Session Consultation (SSC), was found to be an effective, acceptable, and feasible low-intensity treatment option when delivered in person. The current study evaluates the telehealth delivered SSC during the COVID-19 pandemic to individuals waiting to access mental health care. Of the 147 people offered an SSC, 95 (64.63%) accepted the invitation, 74 (77.89%) scheduled with a clinician, and 65 (87.84%) attended the session, surpassing feasibility benchmarks. Participants saw pre-to-post intervention improvements in hopelessness (dz = 0.91, p < .001) and readiness for change (dz = -0.49, p < .001). At 2-week follow-up, anxiety symptoms reduced significantly (dz = 0.40, p = .04) but depression symptoms did not decrease significantly (dz = 0.21). Participants rated telehealth-SSC sessions as highly acceptable and developed a close therapeutic alliance (M = 6.13, SD = 0.76). The telehealth SSC was acceptable, feasible, and effective in the short term, suggesting its utility as a low-intensity, scalable interventions for people on waiting lists for outpatient mental health care. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved) Impact Statement The Single Session Consultation (SSC) can provide effective just-in-time mental health support for people on waiting lists. Additional studies should examine how the SSC can flexibly adapt to meet the demands of various settings and communities. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved)

Can you speak Covid-19? Languages and social inequality in management studies

The Covid-19 crisis makes the study of languages in management even more relevant and timely than before the crisis. In this essay, we discuss the implications of the pandemic for the scholarly agenda of languages in management studies. Our starting point is that Covid-19 represents a major disruption, producing discursive voids that need to be bridged. The meeting of languages opens up a whole new arena for political and ideological struggles over meaning that have so far received limited attention from management scholars. The pandemic and its social and economic reverberations reveal novel research avenues for management scholars studying multilingual setting. In times of crises there is an opportunity for new insight and knowledge to emerge, but crises also make communication gaps and voids of social meaning painfully visible. Covid-19 is foregrounding the consequences of what it means (not) to have access to knowledge, safety, justice, and voice - and lack of access is often aggravated, if not produced, by language barriers. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved)

The impact of human resource management on employee's performance and life satisfaction during crisis situations

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to analyze how Human Resource Management Practices (HRM), namely Employee Engagement (ENG), Enablement (ENB) and Empowerment (EMP) can contribute to employee's Performance (PERF) and Life Satisfaction (LSF), considering the moderator role of Crisis Management (CRM). In doing so, it provides new insights that can help to better understand the importance of involving HRM systems in the companies' strategy to deal with uncertainty and face turbulent times, which is a topic that gained relevance in light of the on-going Covid-19 pandemic. Methodology: This study uses a structured questionnaire to gather data from a cross-sectional sample of 532 companies from several industries in Portugal. Structural equation modelling is used to test the proposed hypotheses, and a multi-group analysis is conducted to analyze the role of CRM in the suggested relationships. Findings: The findings suggest that HRM have a positive impact in ENG, ENB and EMP. Furthermore, ENB and EMP were found to consequently have a positive impact in PERF, but only ENG appeared to have a statistically significant relationship with LSF. The results lead to the conclusion that CRM moderated the suggested relationships.Implications/Originality: This study provides empirical evidence and a better understanding of the role of HRM in companies' strategies during situations of uncertainty, considering the role of CRM as a moderating variable. The overall results provide support to the belief that sustainable HRM practices help companies be sustainable in demanding contexts, contributing to the employee's PERF and LSF. Limitations: The research focused on companies from several industries and does not have a specific focus. Since the considered crisis is still going, this study might not have enough distancing to understand all the problem's dimensions and elements. Longitudinal investigations could improve the potential for making generalizations and establish clear causalities. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved)

Posttraumatic Stress Disorders: Trauma and Mental Disorders

Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is the most common mental diagnosis following trauma, included in modern psychiatric manuals only in 1980 and studied thoroughly among civilians during the last 20 years. Persistent war and terror, the current wave of refugees in the world, and COVID-19 pandemic—all emphasize the importance of identification, treatment, and prevention of PTSD. Recent findings among trauma survivors depict an encouraging common outcome of posttraumatic growth (PTG) and resilience. Current research is aimed at finding better methods to promote these outcomes. © 2022 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

Social support across contexts: In times of crisis and in interventions

Study 1. As an active ingredient in lifestyle interventions, social support is shown to be effective for promoting positive health outcomes. However, many interventions do not directly assess social support, leaving its impact in these contexts ambiguous. The Diabetes Prevention Program is one of the most well supported lifestyle interventions, and specifically targets decreased weight and increased physical activity. The DPP intervention has many opportunities for the exchange of social resources, but these social aspects remain unassessed. The present study assesses the relationship between perceived social support and the Diabetes Prevention Program outcomes of weight and physical activity. Results demonstrate a significant negative relationship between intraindividual change in social support and intraindividual changes in weight across the trajectory of the intervention. Additionally, this relationship was significantly mediated by intraindividual changes in self-efficacy. However, these relationships were not supported for physical activity. This study contributes to the literature investigating the role of social support in lifestyle interventions, and is the first to do so within the Diabetes Prevention Program. Study 2. The COVID-19 pandemic resulted in drastic restrictions limiting in-person social connection, but also drove adoption and progression in digital communication. Social support can act as a buffer for stress during such times of crisis. However, when social distancing was required, many adapted much of their social interaction into a digital context. There is minimal work understanding how digital social support differs from in-person social support, particularly during a time when in-person social support is already displaced. The present study investigates the relationship between strictness of distancing and perceived digital social support, perceived general social support, and higher perceived loneliness. In a randomized controlled trial (RCT), the present study also assessed the effectiveness of a brief video-based social support intervention for increasing perceived digital social support, increasing perceived general social support, and decreasing perceived stress. Higher strictness of distancing was related to lower perceived digital social support, perceived general social support, and perceived loneliness. Additionally, the intervention group had significantly greater increases in perceived digital social support than controls, but no significant difference in change for general social support or perceived stress. The present study demonstrates the unique context that COVID-19 created for social interaction, and provides initial evidence in support of a brief and low-resource intervention for increasing perceptions of digital social support. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved)

Telehealth risk assessment and crisis intervention for secondary students: Best practices for school-based mental health providers

Over the last decade, an upward trend in the rates of youth self-injury, suicide, and violence towards others has caused growing concern. The global pandemic known as the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has only heightened concern due to increased risk factors pertaining to stressors at the social, familial, economic, and health level, including major disruptions to typical routines and support systems. Unfortunately, there are many barriers for at-risk youth to access evidence-based mental health services. Such barriers include cost, lack of trained providers, lack of transportation, physical distancing due to the pandemic, and extended school closures. Providing school-based prevention and intervention programs that promote a positive school climate and student social, emotional, and behavioral well-being helps to address many of these barriers. This project highlights important considerations for providing these services in a school-based telehealth modality. Symptom clusters that put youth at-risk for harm to self or others are described. Best practice therapeutic modalities that can be disseminated in a school-based telehealth modality, such as cognitive behavior therapy, dialectical behavior therapy, mindfulness-based approaches, classroom-wide/school-based prevention curriculum, and postvention are reviewed. Although there is growing empirical literature for these school-based prevention and intervention approaches, additional research is needed to determine how to best support at-risk youth remotely via the school setting. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved)

Adapting mental health care after the COVID-19 outbreak: Preliminary findings from a public general hospital in Madrid (Spain)

This letter discusses mental health care after the COVID-19 outbreak by presenting preliminary findings from a public general hospital in Madrid. The pandemic caused by the SARS-CoV-2 poses a major challenge for national health systems around the globe. In these situations, healthcare centers are urged to adjust their structures to the demands of the outbreak in order to protect both the users and the workers. However, this emergency has no precedent in the recent history, and entire hospitals and clinics need further adaptations for which there is no previous evidence. This affects mental healthcare teams, which deal with the unknown psychological consequences of an overwhelming, global crisis. La Paz University Hospital is a public general hospital that provides healthcare to a catchment area of more than half a million people in Madrid. So far, more than 2,700 confirmed cases of SARS-CoV-2 have been attended in this hospital, which required a complete restructuring process. A few days after the outbreak, its mental health team managed to develop a COVID-19 intervention protocol that was based on its previous experience during the 2014 Ebola crisis in Madrid and on the reports that were coming from China. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved)

Editor's Introduction

Ortega also looks at how Netflix interface manages user experience through a series of connected features, what he refers to as " I We Pay to Buy Ourselves i " in the land of plenty. The second article is titled "Adoption of Social Media during Covid-19 Pandemic by African Presidents: A Cross-Sectional Study of Selected Facebook Accounts" by Janet Aver Adikpo. This issue begins with Vicente Rodríguez Ortega's article titled "'We Pay to Buy Ourselves': Netflix, Spectators & Streaming". [Extracted from the article] Copyright of Journal of Communication Inquiry is the property of Sage Publications Inc. and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.)

The community table: Developing art therapy studios on, in-between, and across borders

This chapter explores The Community Table as an evolving model of practice originating in a context of crisis support. It has developed from initial beginnings at a dining room table in a safe house for young unaccompanied refugees. When working in the border town of Calais, northern France, the lack of consistent safe spaces has required a clear rationale for the work and adaptations to models, which have roots in the art therapy studio. The Community Table can be metaphorically concertinaed to expand, or contract. It has supported a dynamic way of working on, in-between, and across borders, real and symbolic. This model has been translated by Art Refuge to other settings including online under COVID-19. It opens up possibilities for thinking about art therapy studios in settings that previously may have felt out of reach. The chapter presents four iterations of The Community Table. One was developed in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The political and social context, seasons and weather, location and spaces available, and the displaced demographic present shaped each manifestation. This in turn informed what art materials and media were introduced. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved)

Utilizing animal-assisted interventions to support mental health among children in San Antonio: Exploring knowledge, attitudes, & perceptions among school staff and parents

As the research on early trauma and adverse childhood experiences has grown, the San Antonio, TX community has made significant efforts towards becoming trauma informed and expanding interventions that can help support mental health among children. Among interventions that have been considered or utilized in local school districts are Animal-Assisted Interventions (AAIs), including therapy dog visits and animal-assisted crisis response. Despite the growing use of such interventions, no efforts have been made to understand existing knowledge, attitudes, or perceptions relating to AAIs among school stakeholders. To address this gap, the current research project aimed to investigate current knowledge and perceptions relating to animals and AAIs among school staff using semistructured interviews (Paper 1). A survey was also implemented to investigate parent knowledge of AAIs, attitudes towards animals/pets, and perceptions relating to children's mental health and AAIs in schools (Paper 2).Through convenience and purposive sampling, school staff and parents were recruited from two San Antonio school districts. Given restricted access to school campuses amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, parents and staff were contacted via email as a primary method for recruitment. Parent surveys were distributed via email (or sent home with children doing in person learning) and school staff interviews were conducted virtually. Data from interviews were analyzed using thematic analysis, while survey data were analyzed using descriptive statistics. Additional analyses were conducted to assess whether there were associations between pet attitudes, knowledge of AAIs/benefits of animals (AAI knowledge), and perceptions of AAIs (AAI perceptions).Paper 1 findings demonstrated that school staff had knowledge of the health benefits of human-animal interactions and perceived AAIs to be supportive of emotional well-being, school values and culture, and social-emotional skills among children. Paper 2 findings demonstrated that parents also had knowledge of benefits and had positive attitudes towards pets, as well as positive perceptions towards AAIs in schools. Additionally, there was a positive association between pet attitudes and AAI perceptions, as well as a positive association between AAI knowledge and AAI perceptions. While findings from both papers demonstrated favor towards the implementation of AAIs, both staff and parents voiced potential concerns or challenges regarding children and animal's safety/well-being that would need to be addressed in the planning phase. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved)

Hong Kong under COVID-19: Roles of community development service

This short article presents the plight of grassroots under the Covid-19 pandemic, which has been in the third wave from mid-July 2020. Like in many other places, the outbreak has caused economic downturn, and intensified stress about health and rising unemployment. The disadvantaged groups are suffering the most, which shows the problem of social inequality in the community. The roles of community social work in Hong Kong are highlighted to show how social workers can contribute to crisis management and empowerment of the deprived. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved)

iENCUIST: Development and application of an online psychological support tool during COVID-19 in Spain

The iENCUIST online tool was designed to reduce the psychological impact on both the confined population and on professionals who were at the forefront of the fight against the pandemic. In the first study (N = 2,362), the results are shown of the short test to perform personality profiles, made up of 34 items that show good psychometric properties. In the second study, the psychological profiles of confined individuals and professionals who had requested psychological help are presented (N = 815). The results indicate that confined women present higher scores in the variables of anxiety, anger, or disgust, placing this group at a greater risk for presenting psychological problems. As for professionals, those with more years of experience or who faced past crises have greater emotional stability, being a key factor in crisis management. After 6 weeks, the usefulness of the help offered by iENCUIST was evaluated and almost 80% of users indicated that they applied the recommendations offered by the tool, and that they helped them overcome the crisis. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved) (Spanish) La herramienta online iENCUIST fue disenada para reducir el impacto psicologico, tanto en la poblacion confinada como en los profesionales que estaban a la vanguardia de la lucha contra la pandemia por Covid-19. En el primer estudio (N = 2.362) se muestran los resultados del test breve para realizar perfiles de personalidad, compuesto por 34 items que presentan buenas propiedades psicometricas. En el segundo estudio se presentan los perfiles psicologicos de los confinados y los profesionales que habian solicitado ayuda psicologica (N = 815). Los resultados indican que las mujeres confinadas presentan puntuaciones mas altas en las variables de ansiedad, enfado o disgusto, colocando a este grupo en mayor riesgo de presentar problemas psicologicos. En cuanto a los profesionales, aquellos con mas anos de experiencia o que enfrentaron crisis pasadas tienen mayor estabilidad emocional, siendo un factor clave en la gestion de crisis. A las 6 semanas se evaluo la utilidad de la ayuda ofrecida por iENCUIST y casi el 80% de los usuarios indico que aplicaron las recomendaciones que ofrece la herramienta y que les ayudaron a superar la crisis. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved)

Hospitality managers in turbulent times: The COVID-19 crisis

Purpose: This study aims to explore the role General Managers (GMs) play in mitigating the effects of the unprecedented COVID-19 pandemic. Design/methodology/approach: Qualitative structured interviews conducted online with 50 hospitality GMs from 45 countries are used to explore the impact of the pandemic on the industry's operational norms and the role of managers in both managing the crisis and planning contingencies for recovery. Findings: The findings enhance the conceptual capital in this emerging field and provide insights on how GMs behave during crises. Four related sub-themes emerged from the data analysis, namely, contingency planning and crisis management, resilience and impact on GM roles, the impact on hotels' key functional areas and some GMs' suggestions for the future of luxury hospitality. Research limitations/implications: This study generates empirical data that inform contemporary debates about crisis management and resilience in hospitality organizations at a micro-level operational perspective. Practical implications: Findings suggest that, in times of uncertainty and crisis, luxury hotel GMs are vital in coping with changes and leading their organizations to recovery. GMs' resilience and renewed role and abilities enable them to adapt rapidly to external changes on their business environment. Originality/value: This study is unique in terms of scale and depth, as it provides useful insights regarding the GM's role during an unprecedented crisis such as COVID-19. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved)

COVID's impacts on the field of labour and employment relations

The field of labour and employment relations covers work and employment from the perspective of workers, as distinct from the management-oriented field of HR. The COVID-19 crisis that spread across the globe in the early months of 2020 deeply affected employment and work in almost all sectors of the global economy. Already, many academic publishers in the field are demanding that articles and book manuscripts address it. More fundamentally, these developments pose challenges to some core assumptions of our field. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved)