TY - JOUR
T1 - Mental health and clinical psychological science in the time of COVID-19
T2 - Challenges, opportunities, and a call to action.
AU - Gruber, June
AU - Prinstein, Mitchell J.
AU - Clark, Lee Anna
AU - Rottenberg, Jonathan
AU - Abramowitz, Jonathan S.
AU - Albano, Anne Marie
AU - Aldao, Amelia
AU - Borelli, Jessica L.
AU - Chung, Tammy
AU - Davila, Joanne
AU - Forbes, Erika E.
AU - Gee, Dylan G.
AU - Hall, Gordon C.Nagayama
AU - Hallion, Lauren S.
AU - Hinshaw, Stephen P.
AU - Hofmann, Stefan G.
AU - Hollon, Steven D.
AU - Joormann, Jutta
AU - Kazdin, Alan E.
AU - Klein, Daniel N.
AU - La Greca, Annette M.
AU - Levenson, Robert W.
AU - MacDonald, Angus W.
AU - McKay, Dean
AU - McLaughlin, Katie A.
AU - Mendle, Jane
AU - Miller, Adam Bryant
AU - Neblett, Enrique W.
AU - Nock, Matthew
AU - Olatunji, Bunmi O.
AU - Persons, Jacqueline B.
AU - Rozek, David C.
AU - Schleider, Jessica L.
AU - Slavich, George M.
AU - Teachman, Bethany A.
AU - Vine, Vera
AU - Weinstock, Lauren M.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 American Psychological Association
PY - 2021/4
Y1 - 2021/4
N2 - COVID-19 presents significant social, economic, and medical challenges. Because COVID-19 has already begun to precipitate huge increases in mental health problems, clinical psychological science must assert a leadership role in guiding a national response to this secondary crisis. In this article, COVID-19 is conceptualized as a unique, compounding, multidimensional stressor that will create a vast need for intervention and necessitate new paradigms for mental health service delivery and training. Urgent challenge areas across developmental periods are discussed, followed by a review of psychological symptoms that likely will increase in prevalence and require innovative solutions in both science and practice. Implications for new research directions, clinical approaches, and policy issues are discussed to highlight the opportunities for clinical psychological science to emerge as an updated, contemporary field capable of addressing the burden of mental illness and distress in the wake of COVID-19 and beyond.
AB - COVID-19 presents significant social, economic, and medical challenges. Because COVID-19 has already begun to precipitate huge increases in mental health problems, clinical psychological science must assert a leadership role in guiding a national response to this secondary crisis. In this article, COVID-19 is conceptualized as a unique, compounding, multidimensional stressor that will create a vast need for intervention and necessitate new paradigms for mental health service delivery and training. Urgent challenge areas across developmental periods are discussed, followed by a review of psychological symptoms that likely will increase in prevalence and require innovative solutions in both science and practice. Implications for new research directions, clinical approaches, and policy issues are discussed to highlight the opportunities for clinical psychological science to emerge as an updated, contemporary field capable of addressing the burden of mental illness and distress in the wake of COVID-19 and beyond.
KW - COVID-19
KW - clinical psychological science
KW - clinical psychology
KW - mental health
KW - treatment
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U2 - 10.1037/amp0000707
DO - 10.1037/amp0000707
M3 - Article
C2 - 32772538
AN - SCOPUS:85089388330
SN - 0003-066X
VL - 76
SP - 409
EP - 426
JO - American Psychologist
JF - American Psychologist
IS - 3
ER -
