Open AccessThe Imminent Mental Health Crisis and the Role Psychologists Can Play to Improve Occupational Health in Times of Coronavirus Pandemic in Pakistan
Author(s) -
Hifza Rabbani,
Yasir Masood
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
journal of professional and applied psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2710-2793
pISSN - 2710-2785
DOI - 10.52053/jpap.v1i2.20
Subject(s) - mental health , pandemic , public health , scale (ratio) , covid-19 , psychology , population , public relations , psychiatry , economic growth , medicine , political science , nursing , environmental health , geography , economics , disease , cartography , pathology , infectious disease (medical specialty)
As expected, the uncertainty of the novel coronavirus has had a major impact on the mental health of the entire population of the world, whether it is in fear of contracting the virus, being stuck at home or being actually infected by it. This much has been proven by research as well but what can mental health practitioners do to combat this imminent threat on a large scale? To name a few, mobilizing their community to bring awareness to the general public and making mental health care easily available for the larger community can be done. The entire mental health community has to come together to bring about a massive change to tackle the crisis of mental health disabilities surging in a post COVID-19 world.