Psychological Intervention and COVID-19: What We Know So Far and What We Can Do

• DOI: 10.1007/s10879-020-09460-w
• Publication Date: 2020-05-27T02:02:25Z
• Authors: Felix Inchausti; Angus MacBeth; Ilanit Hasson-Ohayon; Giancarlo Dimaggio
• Keywords: Social distance; Pandemic; Distancing; Crisis intervention

The coronavirus COVID-19 and the global pandemic has already had a substantial disruptive impact on society, posing major challenges to provision of mental health services in time crisis, carrying spectre an increased burden health, both terms existing psychiatric disorder, emerging psychological distress from pandemic. In this paper we provide framework for understanding key psychologically informed care during beyond We identify three groups that can benefit approaches and/or interventions relating COVID-19. These are (i) healthcare workers engaged frontline response their patients; (ii) individuals who will experience emergence new as function being diagnosed with COVID-19, or losing family loved ones illness, effects prolonged social distancing; (iii) conditions either whose distancing exacerbates vulnerabilities. Drawing literature our own adapting treatments crisis suggest number salient points consider identifying risks offering support all groups. also offer practical technical considerations working psychotherapeutically patients where restrictions have forced move online technologically mediated delivery interventions.