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COVID-19
Articles tagged "COVID-19".
20 articles
Challenges and Considerations for Predoctoral Psychology Interns During a Pandemic
The University of Denver Graduate School of Professional Psychology Internship Consortium, an APA-accredited internship consortium, consists of seven sites in the Denver metropolitan area including a state psychiatric hospital, residential treatment home for children and adolescents, health maintenance organization, community mental health center, police psychology agency, and two university counseling centers. The global pandemic caused […]
Maya Badwan + 12 more
August 27, 2020
I’m Going Back to My Plough
Over the years, we have come to appreciate that the public policy/political process is a highly personal one in which those who successfully engage possess vision, long-term commitment, and perhaps most importantly, enthusiasm. There are always unexpected opportunities to be discovered – creative ways to accomplish one’s underlying objectives. Accordingly, I have been very pleased […]
Pat DeLeon, Ph.D.
August 27, 2020
Identifying, Addressing, and Using Therapists’ Countertransference in the Time of Pandemics
During the past few months, the world has been experiencing unique challenges. We are all facing many environmental and social stressors (many of which are not new), which will impact us in various ways. We are not only experiencing the COVID-19 pandemic, but we are also experiencing the racism pandemic (Schullman, 2020). In the words […]
Beatriz Palma, Ph.D.
August 27, 2020
“An Old Cowboy Went Riding Out One Dark and Windy Day”
Spring brought to our nation’s Capital the 37th annual APA Practice Leadership Conference (PLC), which is always the highlight of my professional year. I especially appreciate the enthusiastic support of Susan Lazaroff and Dan Abrahamson for sharing this exciting experience with our next generation of military psychology and nursing leaders during their graduate student days […]
Pat DeLeon, Ph.D.
August 3, 2020
Space, Boundaries, and Presence
Online psychotherapy is not new. Group therapy using videoconferencing is not new. What is new, however, is having to start online treatment for the first time in the midst of a global pandemic. Usually, before COVID-19, therapists who provided telehealth services had gone through a planned and thoughtful process of figuring out online work, including […]
Beatriz Palma, Ph.D.
August 3, 2020
2020 President’s Column 55(2)
My first lessons in self-care as a core professional competency were unwanted and unexpected. After a “normal” pregnancy, I went into labor five days past my due date and navigated to the hospital in the middle of the night under blizzard conditions. I made it to the hospital, but by the time I got there, […]
Jennifer L. Callahan, Ph.D., ABPP
August 3, 2020
At Home with COVID-19
The COVID-19 pandemic has amplified anxiety and stressors across the community and resulted in a growing need for psychological interventions via telehealth. Perinatal families, a population vulnerable to stressors and mental health difficulties even when the world is not facing a pandemic, are particularly vulnerable during the current public health crisis. Perinatal Anxiety During an […]
Stephanie Pinch, M.Ed. + 2 more
June 7, 2020
A Survey on Chinese Counseling Hotline Services
COVID-19 first outbroke in Wuhan at the very beginning of 2020, and quickly spread across the country, and over the world. WHO made the claim that the outbreak of COVID-19 can be characterized as a pandemic worldwide on March 11th. With a series of actions implemented as public health emergency interventions by the Chinese government, […]
Yin Cheng, M.A. + 1 more
May 24, 2020