Authors
June Gruber, Mitchell J Prinstein, Lee Anna Clark, Jonathan Rottenberg, Jonathan S Abramowitz, Anne Marie Albano, Amelia Aldao, Jessica L Borelli, Tammy Chung, Joanne Davila, Erika E Forbes, Dylan G Gee, Gordon C Nagayama Hall, Lauren S Hallion, Stephen P Hinshaw, Stefan G Hofmann, Steven D Hollon, Jutta Joormann, Alan E Kazdin, Daniel N Klein, Annette M La Greca, Robert W Levenson, Angus W MacDonald III, Dean McKay, Katie A McLaughlin, Jane Mendle, Adam Bryant Miller, Enrique W Neblett, Matthew Nock, Bunmi O Olatunji, Jacqueline B Persons, David C Rozek, Jessica L Schleider, George M Slavich, Bethany A Teachman, Vera Vine, Lauren M Weinstock
Publication date
2021/4
Source
American Psychologist
Volume
76
Issue
3
Pages
409
Publisher
American Psychological Association
Description
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 …
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