Pandemic: the view of a clinical psychologist
https://doi.org/10.18705/1607-419X-2020-26-3-312-316
Abstract
Recent studies indicate that COVID-19 pandemic has significant negative consequences for the public mental health. These consequences should be assessed and analyzed in the future, but it is already clear, that mass surveys with the use of standard psychological instruments are not adequate for this purpose. The authors emphasize that all stress factors associated with the pandemic (virtual threat and informational stress, deprivation, socioeconomic stress) should be taken into account and qualitatively studied and expect an increase in the prevalence of stressrelated mental disorders and physical diseases.
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About the Authors
A. N. Alekhin
Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Anatoly N. Alekhin, MD, PhD, DSc, Professor, Head, Department of Clinical Psychology and Psychological Assistance
48/11, Moika Embankment, St Petersburg, 191186
E. A. Dubinina
Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia; National Medical Research Center of Psychiatry and Neurology n. a. V. M. Bekhterev
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Elena A. Dubinina, PhD in Psychology, Associate Professor, Department of Clinical Psychology and Psychological Assistance, Herzen State Pedagogical University, Researcher, Laboratory of Clinical Psychology and Psychodiagnostics, National Medical Research Center of Psychiatry and Neurology n. a. V. M. Bekhterev.
St Petersburg
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Alekhin A.N., Dubinina E.A. Pandemic: the view of a clinical psychologist. "Arterial’naya Gipertenziya" ("Arterial Hypertension"). 2020;26(3):312-316. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.18705/1607-419X-2020-26-3-312-316
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