Interdisciplinarity and Integration: An Introduction to the Special Issue on Psychopathology in Medical Settings
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Interdisciplinarity and Integration: An Introduction to the Special Issue on Psychopathology in Medical Settings Golan Shahar1 Accepted: 7 November 2020 © Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 2020
Abstract As the world views, incredulously, the calamitous consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic, the inseparable connections between body and mind become more and more apparent, even for the heretics (i.e., biological determinists). Such realizations also bolster the understanding of the close link between medical conditions and psychopathology. Launched prior to the COVID-19 epidemic, this special issue sets out to illuminate the prevalence, course, etiology, and responses to a myriad of psychopathological conditions in medical conditions. The 13 articles in this special issue address a variety of medical conditions (chronic illness and chronic pain, Pica, cancer, acute delirium, factitious disorders, functional neurological symptoms, sleep disorders, fetal conditions), mental disorders (depression, anxiety, suicidality, eating disorders, personality disorders, PTSD), medical settings (primary care vs. specialty clinics), and developmental levels (children, adolescents, and adults). The overarching theme emanating from reading these articles is that clinical-health psychology, or clinical psychology in medical settings, is an ever-needed field of inquiry, epitomizing interdisciplinarity and science/practice integration. Keywords Psychopathology · Medical settings · Development · Interventions · Integration The entire world views, quite incredulously, the calamitous consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic. As of writing these words (October the 17th, 2020), about 39,666,085 individuals have been infected with coronavirus worldwide, and 1,116,576 died from it. Millions lost their jobs due to economies closing in the face of lockdowns, others, seemingly recuperating, are discovering the challenge of Long Covid (long term effect of the coronavirus disease; https ://www.gov.uk/gover nment/publications/covid-19-longterm-healt h-effect s/covid-19-long-term-healt h -effect s). It is therefore not surprising—albeit most pertinent to the aims of this journal—that a mental disorder pandemic is increasingly surfacing. Namely, rates of depression, anxiety, suicidality, and externalizing psychopathology (e.g., domestic violence) are on the rise in various places around
The author wishes to thank Dr. Ronald Brown, Editor in Chief of JCPMS, for his encouragement and support during guest-editing this special issue. * Golan Shahar [email protected]; [email protected] 1
Department of Psychology, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beersheba, Israel
the world (Bareket-Bojmel, Shahar, & Margalit, 2020, https ://www.who.int/teams/mental-health-and-substance-use/ covid-19). For those of us working in the field of clinical psychology in medical settings, this is hardly surprising, as we have long internalized the inseparability of body and mind, as well as the close link between medical
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