{"id":7577,"date":"2020-06-16T15:17:27","date_gmt":"2020-06-16T22:17:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=7577"},"modified":"2021-03-25T15:18:08","modified_gmt":"2021-03-25T22:18:08","slug":"flattening-the-emotional-distress-curve-a-behavioral-health-pandemic-response-strategy-for-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/06\/16\/flattening-the-emotional-distress-curve-a-behavioral-health-pandemic-response-strategy-for-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Flattening the Emotional Distress Curve: A Behavioral Health Pandemic Response Strategy for COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"34\" data-aria-posinset=\"2019\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Kaslow et a<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">l<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">. propose a 6-phase framework for managing and responding to the behavioral health impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic: preplanning, response readiness, response mobilization, intervention, continuation, and amelioration. The authors describe the Caring Communities initiative as an exemplar of action steps\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">that\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">behavioral health professionals and organizations can take to improve behavioral health care and reduce health disparities during a pandemic.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">Kaslow et al. (June 15, 2020). Flattening the Emotional Distress Curve: A Behavioral Health Pandemic Response Strategy for COVID-19. The American Psychologist.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1037\/amp0000694\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1037\/amp0000694<\/span><\/a><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kaslow et al. propose a 6-phase framework for managing and responding to the behavioral health impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic: preplanning, response readiness, response mobilization, intervention, continuation, and amelioration. The authors describe the Caring Communities initiative as an exemplar of action steps\u00a0that\u00a0behavioral health professionals and organizations can take to improve behavioral health care and reduce&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/06\/16\/flattening-the-emotional-distress-curve-a-behavioral-health-pandemic-response-strategy-for-covid-19\/\">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-7577","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\/7577","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=7577"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7578,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7577\/revisions\/7578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7577"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=7577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}