Mental health and clinical psychological science in the time of COVID-19: Challenges, opportunities, and a call to action.
Am Psychol
; 76(3): 409-426, 2021 04.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-1065803
ABSTRACT
COVID-19 presents significant social, economic, and medical challenges. Because COVID-19 has already begun to precipitate huge increases in mental health problems, clinical psychological science must assert a leadership role in guiding a national response to this secondary crisis. In this article, COVID-19 is conceptualized as a unique, compounding, multidimensional stressor that will create a vast need for intervention and necessitate new paradigms for mental health service delivery and training. Urgent challenge areas across developmental periods are discussed, followed by a review of psychological symptoms that likely will increase in prevalence and require innovative solutions in both science and practice. Implications for new research directions, clinical approaches, and policy issues are discussed to highlight the opportunities for clinical psychological science to emerge as an updated, contemporary field capable of addressing the burden of mental illness and distress in the wake of COVID-19 and beyond. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2021 APA, all rights reserved).
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Main subject:
Psychology, Clinical
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Suicide
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Behavioral Symptoms
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Delivery of Health Care
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COVID-19
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Mental Disorders
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Mental Health Services
Type of study:
Observational study
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Prognostic study
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Qualitative research
Limits:
Adolescent
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Adult
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Aged
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Child
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Humans
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Middle aged
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Young adult
Language:
English
Journal:
Am Psychol
Year:
2021
Document Type:
Article
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