Three challenges that the COVID-19 pandemic represents for psychiatry
Open Access
- 1 September 2020
- journal article
- editorial
- Published by Royal College of Psychiatrists in The British Journal of Psychiatry
- Vol. 217 (3), 475-476
- https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.2020.106
Abstract
The evolving COVID-19 pandemic and its likely consequences add to the already substantial psychosocial burden caused by global problems, existential threats and heightened uncertainty, which are increasingly confronting communities worldwide. Here we briefly outline three challenges for clinical psychiatry and research, related to coping with the social epidemiology of negative moods, stress and socially mediated traumatic experiences brought on by these adverse developments.Keywords
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