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| Published: September 23, 2020
Challenges and opportunities to rise for psychologists in COVID-19 pandemic scenario
Assistant Professor of Psychology, GFGCW Krishnaraja Pete, Affiliated to University of Mysore, Mysore, Karnataka, India Google Scholar More about the auther
Psychologist, Department of Psychiatry, Krishnaraja Hospital, MMCRI, Mysore, Karnataka, India Google Scholar More about the auther
Psychologist, Samanvaya- Symphony youth trust, Mysore, Karnataka, India Google Scholar More about the auther
DIP: 18.01.126/20200803
DOI: 10.25215/0803.126
ABSTRACT
In the present scenario of novel COVID-19 pandemic due to its ability to spread rapidly each and every profession in the globe is facing an invincible challenge and the profession of psychology is also one of such field which is the sheer essential service in this global pandemic scenario but worstly affected due to various challenges posed. Review of existing scientific literature, telephonic interview with practising psychologists and clients who are in close contact with authors was done to collect the information about their experience in the time of COVID-19 outburst and their opinion about psychologist’s role in future. The information collected through various Webinars and Zoom meetings attended by the authors in the COVID-19 lockdown period were also inculcated. The outcome of the present study is offered the perspectives of clients, institutions, psychologists suggesting brief interventions, multidisciplinary research community level management and awareness about the public health emergency is the need of the hour.
Keywords
COVID-19 Pandemic, Psychologists, Challenges, Opportunities, Mental Health
This is an Open Access Research distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any Medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
© 2020, Shyam H. R., Govindaswamy C. & Deepa S. M.
Received: August 03, 2020; Revision Received: September 16, 2020; Accepted: September 23, 2020
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ISSN 2348-5396
ISSN 2349-3429
18.01.126/20200803
10.25215/0803.126
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Published in Volume 08, Issue 3, July-September, 2020