COVID-19 and mental health … What is and will be the impact of COVID-19 on mental health? Since the very beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic there has been significant concern about the mental health care and well-being of general public as well as frontline workers. Social media and news have been constantly publishing tips and guides for psychological self-care and multiple websites, hotlines, and resources have been opening and offered throughout Canada and Ontario.

The concern is there and we should not dismiss it. It is, in fact, a great social achievement that finally mental health well being has moved to the top of our social and political priorities. However, in order to prevent this from becoming another social/political cliché that everybody heard of, but nobody knows what it actually means (like, for example, mindfulness), maybe we should carefully examine actual evidence and to guide provision of such service based of what we know. (more…)

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