Editorial Perspective: Rethinking child and adolescent mental health care after COVID-19.
J Child Psychol Psychiatry
; 62(9): 1067-1069, 2021 09.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-991460
ABSTRACT
While COVID-19 pandemic has allegedly passed its first peak in most western countries, health systems are progressively adapting to the 'new normality'. In child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS), such organizational envisioning is needed to cope with the foreseeable psychological effects of prolonged social isolation induced by nation-wide public health measures such as school closure. CAMHS need to ensure flexible responses to the psychopathological consequences of evolving societal dynamics, as dramatically actualized by the unexpected COVID-19 pandemic. This would imply (a) shifting the focus of intervention from symptom reduction and containment of acute crises in a comparatively small number of severe cases to a broader preventive strategy, guided by a gradient of increasing intensity and specificity of treatment; (b) promoting smooth access pathways into services and encouraging participation of families; (c) adopting a transdiagnostic staging model to capture the developmental fluctuations from subsyndromal to syndromal states and back, with related changes in the intensity of the need of care; and (d) implementing digital tools to encourage help-seeking and compliance by digitally native youth.
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Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Child Psychiatry
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Adolescent Psychiatry
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Pandemics
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COVID-19
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Mental Health Services
Type of study:
Observational study
Limits:
Adolescent
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Child
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Humans
Language:
English
Journal:
J Child Psychol Psychiatry
Year:
2021
Document Type:
Article
Affiliation country:
Jcpp.13371
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