The Behavioral Health System and Its Response to COVID-19: A Snapshot Perspective.
Betacoronavirus
COVID-19
Community Mental Health Services
/ methods
Coronavirus Infections
/ prevention & control
Delivery of Health Care
/ methods
Hospitals, State
Humans
Mental Disorders
/ therapy
Mental Health Services
Pandemics
/ prevention & control
Pneumonia, Viral
/ prevention & control
Residential Treatment
SARS-CoV-2
Telemedicine
/ methods
COVID-19
administration and management
disaster behavioral health
disasters
pandemic
public mental health
Journal
Psychiatric services (Washington, D.C.)
ISSN: 1557-9700
Titre abrégé: Psychiatr Serv
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 9502838
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
01 10 2020
01 10 2020
Historique:
pubmed:
13
8
2020
medline:
21
10
2020
entrez:
13
8
2020
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
The global experience of the COVID-19 pandemic is unprecedented. The magnitude, pace, and uncertainty of the pandemic have taxed systems and catalyzed innovation in many fields, including behavioral health. Behavioral health leaders have absorbed changing information about regulations and laws, proper use of personal protective equipment, isolation and quarantine, telepsychiatry practices (broadly defined here as the use of virtual and telephonic means to provide behavioral health care), and financial opportunities and challenges while attending to the mental health needs of local populations. This Open Forum reviews many of the adaptations of the behavioral health system in response to COVID-19 on the basis of a point-in-time snapshot and describes needed multidimensional policy and practice considerations for the future.
Identifiants
pubmed: 32781926
doi: 10.1176/appi.ps.202000264
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Review
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
1070-1074Commentaires et corrections
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