Changes in Psychic Life and Psychological Treatments during COVID-19 Pandemic
A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 September 2023) | Viewed by 54856
Special Issue Editors
Interests: therapeutic assessment; relational psychopathology models; epistemology of psychotherapy; psychotherapy process; comprehensive primary health care
2. Medical Anthropology Research Center, DAFITS-Universitat Rovira i Virgili Av. Catalunya 35, ES-43002 Tarragona, Spain
Interests: medical anthropology; global mental health; medical humanities; neuroscience and society; sociology of diagnosis; global social medicine
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
It has been almost two years since the COVID-19 outbreak changed the way humanity lives. The transformations in the way we think, feel, and relate have been and continue to be as many and as significant as those that have occurred in other areas of human life. We can say that, as human beings, we are no longer the same as we were two years ago.
Among the many transformations that have occurred during this pandemic period, we find the core existential beliefs, the interpersonal relationships, the emotion regulation strategies, the perceptions of our mortality, time and space, the role of science and culture, and the sense of uncertainty and interdependence among human beings and between social groups and the environment. The extent and nature of these psychological and cultural changes have still to be studied in terms of the constraints and possibilities for improving social coexistence and for adapting psychological treatments in these changed conditions of life.
This Special Issue aims to provide selected empirical, theoretical, and review contributions on the psychological changes and adaptations taking place in this pandemic period and on the necessary transformations of psychological interventions aimed at fostering well-being in different contexts (family, school, community, workplace, etc.).
Potential topics include but are not limited to:
- psychological aspects of long COVID syndrome
- vaccine hesitancy, epistemic trust, and science conceptions
- telepsychology and telepsychotherapy
- effects of changes in psychotherapy setting
- emotion regulation in quarantine and isolation
- wellbeing and telework
- relational changes in school and work setting
- resilience, meaning making and post-traumatic growth
- grieving in the pandemic
- family relationships during pandemic
- psychological treatment for health workers.
Dr. Attà Negri
Prof. Dr. Francisco Ortega
Dr. Arianna Barazzetti
Guest Editors
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