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Mental health and clinical psychological science in the time of COVID-19: Challenges, opportunities, and a call to action.
- Source :
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The American psychologist [Am Psychol] 2021 Apr; Vol. 76 (3), pp. 409-426. Date of Electronic Publication: 2020 Aug 10. - Publication Year :
- 2021
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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).
- Subjects :
- Adolescent
Adult
Aged
Child
Humans
Middle Aged
Young Adult
Behavioral Symptoms etiology
Behavioral Symptoms psychology
Behavioral Symptoms therapy
COVID-19
Delivery of Health Care organization & administration
Delivery of Health Care standards
Delivery of Health Care trends
Mental Disorders etiology
Mental Disorders psychology
Mental Disorders therapy
Mental Health Services organization & administration
Mental Health Services standards
Mental Health Services trends
Psychology, Clinical
Suicide psychology
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 1935-990X
- Volume :
- 76
- Issue :
- 3
- Database :
- MEDLINE
- Journal :
- The American psychologist
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 32772538
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1037/amp0000707