UMass Chan Medical School Faculty Publications
Title
Impact of global and national crises on people with severe mental illness
UMMS Affiliation
Department of Psychiatry
Publication Date
2020-12-16
Document Type
Article
Disciplines
Mental and Social Health | Psychiatry | Psychiatry and Psychology
Abstract
As experts in disaster mental health push to reframe disaster response as a preventive medicine rather than its actual state of acute management, various factors should be considered. Although a whole population may be victim to the effects of disasters, particularly vulnerable are those with severe mental illness. Therefore, efforts geared to bolster trauma response should centre on these individuals, starting at a community level and reaching organisational and governmental endeavours and funding.
Keywords
Trauma, pandemic, in-patient treatment, out-patient treatment, severe mental illness, COVID-19
DOI of Published Version
10.1192/bja.2020.87
Source
Abi Zeid Daou, M., Halbreich, U., & Geller, J. (2020). Impact of global and national crises on people with severe mental illness. BJPsych Advances, 1-3. doi:10.1192/bja.2020.87. Link to article on publisher's website
Journal/Book/Conference Title
BJPsych Advances
Repository Citation
Abi Zeid Daou M, Halbreich U, Geller JL. (2020). Impact of global and national crises on people with severe mental illness. UMass Chan Medical School Faculty Publications. https://doi.org/10.1192/bja.2020.87. Retrieved from https://escholarship.umassmed.edu/faculty_pubs/1865