Resilience is spreading: Mental health within the COVID-19 pandemic.

• DOI: 10.1037/tra0000874
• Publication Date: 2020-06-04T15:02:51Z
• Authors: Emma K. PeConga; Gabrielle M. Gaut...; Ash Holloway; Rosemary S. W. Wa...; Peter L. Rosencrans; Lori A. Zoellner; Michele Bedard-Gi...
• Keywords: PsycINFO; Prosocial Behavior; Pandemic; Resilience; Community Resilience

The COVID-19 global pandemic is in many ways unchartered mental health territory, but history would suggest that long-term resilience will be the most common outcome, even for those directly impacted by outbreak. We address 4 myths about and discuss to systematically build individual community resiliency. Actively cultivating social support, adaptive meaning, direct prosocial behaviors reach vulnerable can have powerful promoting effects. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved).