The Behavioral Health System and Its Response to COVID-19: A Snapshot Perspective
The Behavioral Health System and Its Response to COVID-19: A Snapshot Perspective
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DOI：
10.1176/appi.ps.202000264
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发表时间：
2020-10-01
影响因子：
3.8
通讯作者：
Stephenson, Arlene H.
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作者：
Pinals, Debra A.;Hepburn, Brian;Stephenson, Arlene H.
2019冠状病毒病大流行的全球经验是前所未有的。大流行的规模、速度和不确定性给系统带来了负担，并促进了包括行为健康在内的许多领域的创新。行为健康领导者在满足当地人口的心理健康需求的同时，吸收了有关法规和法律、正确使用个人防护装备、隔离和检疫、远程精神病学做法（这里广义地定义为使用虚拟和电话手段提供行为保健）以及财务机遇和挑战等方面不断变化的信息。本次开放论坛在时间点快照的基础上审查了行为卫生系统为应对COVID-19而采取的许多调整措施，并描述了未来所需的多维政策和实践考虑因素。
The global experience of the COVID-19 pandemic is unprecedented. Themagnitude, pace, and uncertainty of the pandemic have taxed systems and catalyzed innovation in many fields, including behavioral health. Behavioral health leaders have absorbed changing information about regulations and laws, proper use of personal protective equipment, isolation and quarantine, telepsychiatry practices (broadly defined here as the use of virtual and telephonic means to provide behavioral health care), and financial opportunities and challenges while attending to themental health needs of local populations. This Open Forum reviews many of the adaptations of the behavioral health system in response to COVID-19 on the basis of a point-in-time snapshot and describes needed multidimensional policy and practice considerations for the future.