How the COVID-19 Pandemic Transformed the Mental Health Landscape

Preface Part I: Responding to the Pandemic across Cultures 1. Adapting mental health services to the COVID-19 pandemic: reflections from professionals in four countries 2. Even more to handle: additional sources of stress and trauma for clients from marginalized racial and ethnic groups in the United States during the COVID-19 pandemic 3. Telephone-based psychological crisis intervention: the Portuguese experience with COVID-19 4. Connectedness under social distancing - a support group practice report Part II: Specific Populations 5. Teletherapy with serious mental illness populations during COVID-19: telehealth conversion and engagement 6. The impact of COVID-19 on coordinated specialty care (CSC) for people with first episode psychosis (FEP): Preliminary observations, and recommendations, from the United States, Israel and China 7. Special challenges in psychotherapy continuation and adaption for persons with schizophrenia in the age of coronavirus (COVID-19) 8. Transitioning a technology- assisted stepped- care model for traumatic injury patients to a fully remote model in the age of COVID-19 9. Clinical management of common presentations of patients diagnosed with BPD during the COVID-19 pandemic: the contribution of the MBT framework Part III: Training and Supervision 10. Telepsychology training in a public health crisis: a case example 11. "The remainder of your practicum training has been terminated": a unique challenge faced by trainees during the COVID-19 pandemic 12. Shifting a training clinic to teletherapy during the COVID-19 pandemic: a trainee perspective 13. Supervision from Afar: trainees' perspectives on telesupervision 14. Tending the grapevine: a qualitative analysis of responses to a psychotherapist-in-training testing positive for COVID-19 Part IV: Research Perspectives 15. Supporting practice based evidence in the COVID- 19 crisis: three researcher- practitioners' stories 16. Hope during the COVID- 19 outbreak: coping with the psychological impact of quarantine 17. Responding to the Covid- 19 pandemic at a university counselling center: administrative actions, client retention, and psychotherapy outcome