User:Gtpalmis/Mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic

COVID-19's effect on mental health
General: Coping

Loss is something that everyone will experience, and this article covers the individual and community interventions losses as well as the pre-pandemic context of marginalization and social inequality. The article covers four main types of intersecting losses and interventions of the COVID-19 Pandemic: work and financial security, safety of physical and mental health, routines and work-life boundaries, and relationships and collective rituals. This article proposes that integrative solutions are essential for developing innovative psychological and work-based practices to address multifaceted challenges. Because of COVID-19, mental health awareness has been on a rise and the authors propose that a trauma-informed perspective may be optimal in guiding mental health, work-based, and integrative treatments. COVID-19 has disrupted the world and it has required innovative and comprehensive approaches to intervening in the lives of people who have lost so much. Many changes will require systemic advocacy along with policy changes with the focus being on the development of integrative interventions and effective prevention efforts. Systemic innovations that center the needs of people in the design of more supportive work and mental health resources should be a guiding principle in developing humane public policies. Psychology has played a major role in informing transformations in practice and prevention efforts so that individuals and communities have the psychological, social and community based support system to manage unprecedented losses.

COVID-19 has had a heavy impact on the mental health of people in numerous ways. This article discusses how to develop strategies to not only cope with COVID-19, but to improve one's well-being. From a study that was conducted, it shows that there was an increase of mental health illnesses as a consequence of the pandemic. The authors of this article inform us with several strategies to prevent mental illnesses.

College students

This article covers material on how college students' use of media has affected their mental health. College students expressed whether they will ever be able to return to pre pandemic normalcy and if their education now will affect their future work-life because of not getting a full education experience. The study that was conducted concluded that college students who interacted with some type of social media may have been used as a coping mechanism.

The first recorded case of COVID-19 from China was December 8, 2019 and a month later on January 20,2020 the United States reported its first case and shortly after on February 29, 2020, the first death was recorded and by mid-March, COVID-19 was classified as a pandemic and caused state-wide stay-at-home orders and school closures. But college students were not only facing this one pandemic. They were facing four different pandemics that all went hand-in-hand. Throughout this article, the study reflects that students were less motivated to complete school work and had higher negative emotions.

Parents

Mental health in parents is one thing that is seldomly spoken about. Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, parents’ mental health was (and still is) at an all time high. When the United States shut down to hopefully stop the spread of COVID-19, places like grocery stores and schools were closed as well as parents losing their jobs. This resulted in some parents turning to alcohol or substance use because they could not handle the amount of stress and financial burden they were going to endure. The study conducted will give us a variation of results with one including that parents’ mental health will be impacted by COVID-19 for an extended time.

225,435. This is the number of cases in the United States that was reported on May 18, 2020. Italian parents are concerned that the pandemic has produced a stressful environment in several ways: Parents are worried about the economic and physical health of their families; they are concerned about their child(ren)’s social isolation from teachers and peers; may be preoccupied with management, duration and outcomes of homeschooling; have doubts about providing information about COVID-19 to their child(ren) in an appropriate way; mistrusting the government’s intention on providing support for parents who juggling childcare, home-based working, and summer holidays.