How Can Psychologists and Psychiatrists Help COVID-19 Bereaved Persons: Five Propositions to Understanding Contextual Challenges
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Title: | How Can Psychologists and Psychiatrists Help COVID-19 Bereaved Persons: Five Propositions to Understanding Contextual Challenges |
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Authors: | Kokou-Kpolou, Cyrille Kossigan | Cénat, Jude Mary | Pérez-Marfil, María Nieves | Fernández-Alcántara, Manuel |
Research Group/s: | Psicología Aplicada a la Salud y Comportamiento Humano (PSYBHE) |
Center, Department or Service: | Universidad de Alicante. Departamento de Psicología de la Salud |
Keywords: | COVID-19 deaths | Prolonged grief disorders | Assessment | Therapies |
Knowledge Area: | Personalidad, Evaluación y Tratamiento Psicológico |
Issue Date: | Sep-2020 |
Publisher: | Cluj-Napoca University Press |
Citation: | Journal of Evidence-Based Psychotherapies. 2020, 20(2): 121-128. https://doi.org/10.24193/jebp.2020.2.15 |
Abstract: | The COVID-19 pandemic is causing unprecedented cumulative deaths and leaving behind millions of bereaved families and individuals. Moreover, the pandemic is disrupting social fabrics in the conventional way we mourn our deads. In this context therefore, how can psychologists, psychiatrists and other health care professionals help bereaved families and individuals more effectively? This opinion paper proposed five recommendations that cover mental health care needs and challenges which may emerge from the management of these traumatic deaths. In all, efforts to comply with either DSM-5 or ICD-11 PGD guidelines could help COVID-19 bereaved persons with overwhelming distress, as they ensure therapists' use of appropriate terminologies in therapeutic alliances. However, clinicians need to have a global perspective of COVID-19 bereavement courses, political and public health measures due to the pandemic, and flexible attitudes about the ICD-11 and of DSM-5 time-criterion for diagnosis. This paper emphasizes the importance of social and collective recognition of COVID-19 deaths through various symbolic and materialized forms to free up collective and individual capacities for resilience. The necessity of individual and group interventions through online platforms is underscored, however these modes of therapies may not reinforce social inequalities by excluding bereaved individuals who really need them. |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10045/112906 |
ISSN: | 2360-0853 |
DOI: | 10.24193/jebp.2020.2.15 |
Language: | eng |
Type: | info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Rights: | © Journal of Evidence-Based Psychotherapies |
Peer Review: | si |
Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.24193/jebp.2020.2.15 |
Appears in Collections: | INV - PSYBHE - Artículos de Revistas |
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