{"id":5630,"date":"2020-04-02T15:08:10","date_gmt":"2020-04-02T22:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=5630"},"modified":"2021-03-03T15:09:14","modified_gmt":"2021-03-03T23:09:14","slug":"the-consequences-of-the-covid-19-pandemic-on-mental-health-and-implications-for-clinical-practice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/04\/02\/the-consequences-of-the-covid-19-pandemic-on-mental-health-and-implications-for-clinical-practice\/","title":{"rendered":"The consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic on mental health and implications for clinical practice."},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The authors discuss the expected increase in need for psychiatric help due to widespread stress and mental trauma caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and related containment measures, especially among those infected, health care workers, and other high-risk groups.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In order to reduce risk of developing mental health problems, the authors suggest: (1) limiting sources of stress, and relying on limited and official information sources only, (2) increasing communication with friends and loved ones, even if at a distance, (3) maintaining a regular daily routine, (4) focusing on the long-term benefits of current isolation measures and (5) seeking professional psychiatric help as needed.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Fiorillo and Gorwood. (2020). The consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic on mental health and implications for clinical practice. European Psychiatry. <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1192\/j.eurpsy.2020.35\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1192\/j.eurpsy.2020.35<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The authors discuss the expected increase in need for psychiatric help due to widespread stress and mental trauma caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and related containment measures, especially among those infected, health care workers, and other high-risk groups. In order to reduce risk of developing mental health problems, the authors suggest: (1) limiting sources of&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/04\/02\/the-consequences-of-the-covid-19-pandemic-on-mental-health-and-implications-for-clinical-practice\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"topic":[18],"class_list":["post-5630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","topic-mental-health-and-personal-impact"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5630"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5630\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5631,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5630\/revisions\/5631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5630"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=5630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}