Cargando…
Youth mental health in the time of COVID-19
Youth mental health is a rapidly developing field with a focus on prevention, early identification, treatment innovation and service development. In this perspective piece, we discuss the effects of COVID-19 on young people’s mental health. The psychosocial effects of COVID-19 disproportionately aff...
Autores principales: | , , , |
---|---|
Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
Publicado: |
Cambridge University Press
2020
|
Materias: | |
Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7520633/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32611470 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/ipm.2020.84 |
_version_ | 1783587815126204416 |
---|---|
author | Power, E. Hughes, S. Cotter, D. Cannon, M. |
author_facet | Power, E. Hughes, S. Cotter, D. Cannon, M. |
author_sort | Power, E. |
collection | PubMed |
description | Youth mental health is a rapidly developing field with a focus on prevention, early identification, treatment innovation and service development. In this perspective piece, we discuss the effects of COVID-19 on young people’s mental health. The psychosocial effects of COVID-19 disproportionately affect young people. Both immediate and longer-term factors through which young people are affected include social isolation, changes to the delivery of therapeutic services and almost complete loss of all structured occupations (school, work and training) within this population group. Longer-term mechanisms include the effects of the predicted recession on young people’s mental health. Opportunities within this crisis exist for service providers to scale up telehealth and digital services that may benefit service provision for young people’s mental health in the future. |
format | Online Article Text |
id | pubmed-7520633 |
institution | National Center for Biotechnology Information |
language | English |
publishDate | 2020 |
publisher | Cambridge University Press |
record_format | MEDLINE/PubMed |
spelling | pubmed-75206332020-09-28 Youth mental health in the time of COVID-19 Power, E. Hughes, S. Cotter, D. Cannon, M. Ir J Psychol Med Perspective Piece Youth mental health is a rapidly developing field with a focus on prevention, early identification, treatment innovation and service development. In this perspective piece, we discuss the effects of COVID-19 on young people’s mental health. The psychosocial effects of COVID-19 disproportionately affect young people. Both immediate and longer-term factors through which young people are affected include social isolation, changes to the delivery of therapeutic services and almost complete loss of all structured occupations (school, work and training) within this population group. Longer-term mechanisms include the effects of the predicted recession on young people’s mental health. Opportunities within this crisis exist for service providers to scale up telehealth and digital services that may benefit service provision for young people’s mental health in the future. Cambridge University Press 2020-07-02 /pmc/articles/PMC7520633/ /pubmed/32611470 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/ipm.2020.84 Text en © College of Psychiatrists of Ireland 2020 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Perspective Piece Power, E. Hughes, S. Cotter, D. Cannon, M. Youth mental health in the time of COVID-19 |
title | Youth mental health in the time of COVID-19 |
title_full | Youth mental health in the time of COVID-19 |
title_fullStr | Youth mental health in the time of COVID-19 |
title_full_unstemmed | Youth mental health in the time of COVID-19 |
title_short | Youth mental health in the time of COVID-19 |
title_sort | youth mental health in the time of covid-19 |
topic | Perspective Piece |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7520633/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32611470 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/ipm.2020.84 |
work_keys_str_mv | AT powere youthmentalhealthinthetimeofcovid19 AT hughess youthmentalhealthinthetimeofcovid19 AT cotterd youthmentalhealthinthetimeofcovid19 AT cannonm youthmentalhealthinthetimeofcovid19 |