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During the Coronavirus-19 pandemic, there was an increase in psychological distress: depressive symptoms (up to 48.3%), psychological distress (38%), post-traumatic stress disorder (53.8%), sleep disorders (67%), and anxiety symptoms (50.9%). On the contrary, social anxiety disorder (SAD) seems to have shown peculiar characteristics in response to quarantine. In fact, those who suffer from SAD appear to have perceived no symptomatic variation compared to the period preceding the pandemic or even reported an improvement in their symptoms. Some studies, cited in this paper, highlight how, probably because of social distancing and quarantine policies, people with pre-pandemic social anxiety disorder found themselves in a more favourable condition due to the fact that daily routines and social contacts were reduced, allowing them to camouflage the need for avoidance and perceive a consequent easing of anxiety symptoms because of decreased social interactions. The aim of this work is to highlight concern for a worsening of symptoms at the end of the pandemic when these people will have to return to facing their daily life thus intensifying social relationships. Consequently, it is important to draw attention to both old and new patients. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The COVID-19 pandemic and related restrictive measures have had a significant impact on the mental health of the entire population, especially children and adolescents. It seems appropriate to make a distinction between stressful events, which most families have experienced, and real traumatic experiences, which only the most vulnerable individuals have been victims of. In fact, the most recent data (WHO, 2020) show a significant increase in the rates of intra-family violence against women and minors around the world, during the period of the lockdown. The aim of this paper is to illustrate the spectrum of symptoms that the experience of a complex trauma determines on children and adolescents, and at the same time to indicate the possible strategies to facilitate the early detection of distress indicators and implement the necessary interventions in emergency contexts in an integrated and multilevel perspective. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The COVID-19 pandemic and related restrictive measures have had a significant impact on the mental health of the entire population, especially children and adolescents. It seems appropriate to make a distinction between stressful events, which most families have experienced, and real traumatic experiences, which only the most vulnerable individuals have been victims of. In fact, the most recent data (WHO, 2020) show a significant increase in the rates of intra-family violence against women and minors around the world, during the period of the lockdown. The aim of this paper is to illustrate the spectrum of symptoms that the experience of a complex trauma determines on children and adolescents, and at the same time to indicate the possible strategies to facilitate the early detection of distress indicators and implement the necessary interventions in emergency contexts in an integrated and multilevel perspective. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The COVID-19 pandemic has unexpectedly entered our lives, causing social changes and leaving its traces in the language, too, through words that have forcefully and suddenly entered our lives like the virus itself. In Italian most of these words are anglicisms, which have been the most numerous borrowings since the 20th century. In this paper the focus was on anglicisms such as COVID hospital, hub, lockdown, smart working, distanziamento sociale, delivery, rider, green pass and recovery fund, which, in our opinion, have been widely used in the media to describe the pandemic period to the detriment of their Italian equivalents. The analysis focused on the frequency of anglicisms and their Italian equivalents in the electronic versions of the newspapers La Repubblica and Corriere della Sera, and the reasons for their wide diffusion. The results confirm their dominance in journalistic language and suggest their imposition over the Italian variants. Initially, the influx was presumably stimulated by the urgency of work. Their emergence, on the other hand, was due to different factors: in the case of hub, delivery and rider because of their brevity and compactness; in the case of COVID hospital because of a more restricted semantics; in the case of lockdown and distanziamento sociale because they are umbrella terms; in the case of smart working because of the prestige that the English language has in Italian society; in the case of green pass and recovery fund because they were introduced into Italian journalistic language directly through foreign media. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]