PARALLEL PANDEMIC: PSYCHOLOGICAL FACILITATION IN MEDICAL ASSISTANCE

Abstract

Analysis of current studies in Russia and other countries allows to make a conclusion about the growing pace, developing so-called parallel pandemic, which is formed at the level of psychological health. This situation reveals the urgency to analyze the situation of the COVID-19 pandemic from both clinical psychology and general medical practice points of view. This article attempts to highlight the potentially possible, negative consequences of the pandemic, which affect the psychological state of different categories of the population. In particular the special attention is paid to the difficulties faced by health-care staff at the core of the fight against COVID-19. A comparative analysis of the current situation allowed the authors of this article to draw parallels between the state in which most of the population is now living and the state of the learned helplessness. A scheme for the medical and psychological assistance in the post-pandemic period has been proposed.