Revista de Psicología y Psicoterapia

Revista de Psicología y Psicoterapia
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ISSN: 2161-0487

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Salud mental y COVID-19: un plan de acción

Giulia Simonetti*, Carmela Iosco, Gianfranco Taruschio

Since January 2020, the disease caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus has spread and become pandemic. In a few months, the virus had seriously affected the health systems of various countries of the world and placed people in difficult psychological conditions. This manuscript briefly reviews COVID-19’s studies focused on psychological reactions to the event. Furthermore, this work presents a plan to easily frame the priorities of mental health areas related to COVID-19 which should be disseminated and that should be known by all health professionals and also by the major administrators of public health to empower the actual situation and prevent future emergencies. Today psychological COVID-19’s sequelae affected a great number of people in the world and also called “Long COVID” presents psychological symptoms that affect for a long time people diagnosed as COVID. Due to this experience, it seems advisable to rethink the organization of mental health services to better help the population in case of serious alert for life.

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