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The COVID-19 pandemic led to a surge in teen eating disorders. Faced with school shutdowns, isolation, and other stressors, many young people felt a loss of control over their lives. For some, food was the only thing they could control. This book explores the challenges of living with eating disorders and how the pandemic led to rising numbers of teens with this condition. Solid facts and personal accounts add insight into this topic.

- DAS Buch zum Thema für eine professionelle Leserschaft - Erläutert notwendige Maßnahmen in Kliniken, Heimen, Beratungsstellen und für Niedergelassene - Berücksichtigt die Erkenntnisse und wissenschaftlichen Befunde aus der Zeit der ersten Pandemiewelle - Erläutert die Besonderheiten gefährdeter Zielgruppen wie Alleinerziehender, Opfer häuslicher Gewalt, Einsatzkräfte, Hinterbliebener und älterer Menschen Während die in der Akutphase der Pandemie erschienene 1. Auflage das Augenmerk auf Maßnahmen und Hilfestellungen für die Phase des Lockdowns gerichtet hatte, beschäftigt sich diese notwendig gewordene Neuauflage mit den mittel- und langfristigen Herausforderungen der Pandemie. In der Zwischenzeit sind neue Themenfelder in den Vordergrund gerückt, etwa das der gesundheitlichen Langzeitfolgen, der Auswirkungen auf Kinder und Jugendliche oder der palliativmedizinischen Betreuung samt des Umgangs mit Sterbenden und Hinterbliebenen. Dieses Buch richtet sich an: - Psychologische und ärztliche PsychotherapeutInnen, - AkuthelferInnen und FachberaterInnen - andere systemrelevante Berufsgruppen wie ÄrztInnen anderer Fachrichtungen - SozialarbeiterInnen und -pädagogInnen

A lo largo de la vida de un ser humano, cientos de imprevistos acontecen y devienen todo un reto, más cuando este cambio es impuesto. Situaciones adversas, como la del confinamiento ante una pandemia, pueden resultar difíciles de aceptar. Nunca hubiéramos pensado tener la posibilidad de vivir un experimento natural en el que gran parte de la humanidad estuviese confinada en su hogar. Este tipo de crisis ofrece un espacio para auscultarse a uno mismo y analizar quién posee de verdad liderazgo, quién tiene carácter para no dejarse caer por el abismo. No obstante, ese estado también produce un sufrimiento compartido, donde las pesadillas y los sueños cargados de ansiedad son los protagonistas. Los planteamientos personales y las relaciones establecidas en momentos inusuales conjugan un mundo que requiere de estudios y análisis psicológicos, sociológicos y psicopatológicos. En este libro, Javier Urra hace una aportación elaborada desde su interior y de lo que rodea al ser humano, donde los sentimientos encontrados van de la mano de la psicología, una disciplina que tiene mucho que aportar. Reflexiones conmovedoras acompañadas de sucesos reales donde podrá verse reflejado y otros totalmente dispares de los que, seguro, aprenderá muchas cosas. En toda situación, por muy complicada que sea, hay una oportunidad. No ponga límites a sus emociones y déjese llevar por los múltiples sentimientos que florecerán con la lectura de este libro. Javier Urra es psicólogo forense por oposición de la Fiscalía del Tribunal Superior de Justicia y de los Juzgados de Menores de Madrid. Primer Defensor del Menor de la Comunidad de Madrid. Doctor en Psicología y Doctor en Ciencias de la Salud. Pedagogo terapeuta y profesor de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Académico de Número de la Academia de Psicología de España. Embajador de la Asociación Iberoamericana de Psicología Jurídica. Presidente de la Comisión Rectora del Programa recURRA-GINSO para padres e hijos con conflicto, entre otros méritos.

Als uns das Virus SARS-CoV-2 in Europa erreichte, gerieten wir in Panik. Das Leben wurde auf das Notwendigste heruntergefahren und zaghaft wieder gelockert. Dem Lockdown folgen gewaltige Veränderungen. Die Rückkehr in die bekannte Normalität ist nicht in Sicht. Wie erlebten wir die Bedrohung unserer Gesundheit und die Veränderungen der gewohnten Lebensrituale? Was folgte auf Schock und Angst? Wie gelang es, lang eingeübte Rituale abzulegen und die Herausforderungen anzunehmen? Wie werden wir nach dem Lockdown über die politischen Maßnahmen reden, woran werden wir uns erinnern und was werden wir aus der Krise gelernt haben? Dieses Essential bietet eine wirtschaftspsychologische Analyse über das komplexe Zusammenspiel zwischen Staat, Organisationen und Menschen vom Beginn der Krise bis zur Reparaturphase.

Scientists, journalists, novelists, and filmmakers continue to generate narratives of contagion, stories shaped by a tradition of disease discourse that extends to early Greco-Roman literature. Lucretius, Vergil, and Ovid developed important conventions of the western plague narrative as a response to the breakdown of the Roman res publica in the mid-first century CE and the reconstitution of stabilized government under the Augustan Principate (31 BCE-14 CE): relying on the metaphoric relationship between the human body and the body politic, these authors used largely fictive representations of epidemic disease to address the collapse of the social order and suggest remedies for its recovery. Theorists such as Susan Sontag and René Girard have observed how the rhetoric of disease frequently signals social, psychological, or political pathologies, but their observations have rarely been applied to Latin literary practices. Pestilence and the Body Politic in Latin Literature explores how the origins and spread of outbreaks described by Roman writers enact a drama in which the concerns of the individual must be weighed against those of the collective, staged in an environment signalling both reversion to a pre-historic Golden Age and the devastation characteristic of a post-apocalyptic landscape. Such innovations in Latin literature have impacted representations as diverse as Carlo Coppola's paintings of a seventeenth-century outbreak of bubonic plague in Naples and Margaret Atwood's Maddaddam Trilogy. Understanding why Latin writers developed these tropes for articulating contagious disease and imbuing them with meaning for the collapse of the Roman body politic allows us to clarify what more recent disease discourses mean both for their creators and for the populations they afflict in contemporary media.

This book focuses on how to formulate a mental health response with respect to the unique elements of pandemic outbreaks. Unlike other disaster psychiatry books that isolate aspects of an emergency, this book unifies the clinical aspects of disaster and psychosomatic psychiatry with infectious disease responses at the various levels, making it an excellent resource for tackling each stage of a crisis quickly and thoroughly. The book begins by contextualizing the issues with a historical and infectious disease overview of pandemics ranging from the Spanish flu of 1918, the HIV epidemic, Ebola, Zika, and many other outbreaks. The text acknowledges the new infectious disease challenges presented by climate changes and considers how to implement systems to prepare for these issues from an infection and social psyche perspective. The text then delves into the mental health aspects of these crises, including community and cultural responses, emotional epidemiology, andmental health concerns in the aftermath of a disaster. Finally, the text considers medical responses to situation-specific trauma, including quarantine and isolation-associated trauma, the mental health aspects of immunization and vaccination, survivor mental health, and support for healthcare personnel, thereby providing guidance for some of the most alarming trends facing the medical community.Written by experts in the field, Psychiatry of Pandemics is an excellent resource for infectious disease specialists, psychiatrists, psychologists, immunologists, hospitalists, public health officials, nurses, and medical professionals who may work patients in an infectious disease outbreak.

Pandemics are large-scale epidemics that spread throughout the world. Virologists predict that the next pandemic could occur in the coming years, probably from some form of influenza, with potentially devastating consequences. Vaccinations, if available, and behavioral methods are vital for stemming the spread of infection. However, remarkably little attention has been devoted to the psychological factors that influence the spread of pandemic infection and the associated emotional distress and social disruption. Psychological factors are important for many reasons. They play a role in nonadherence to vaccination and hygiene programs, and play an important role in how people cope with the threat of infection and associated losses. Psychological factors are important for understanding and managing societal problems associated with pandemics, such as the spreading of excessive fear, stigmatization, and xenophobia that occur when people are threatened with infection. This book offers the first comprehensive analysis of the psychology of pandemics. It describes the psychological reactions to pandemics, including maladaptive behaviors, emotions, and defensive reactions, and reviews the psychological vulnerability factors that contribute to the spreading of disease and distress. It also considers empirically supported methods for addressing these problems, and outlines the implications for public health planning.