{"title":"Challenges of Covid-19 on Adolescent Psychiatric Service Provision in an Independent Inpatient and Outpatient Setting","authors":"L. Bond, A. Murtagh, S. Morgan","doi":"10.2174/2210676611666210202090610","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"\n\nCOVID-19 is one of the most challenging and devastating public health emergencies we have experienced in our lifetimes. There is a growing concern that the pandemic and its imposed public health restrictions may be harming a generation of young people. This is concerning for child and adolescent psychiatry as there is already a mismatch between resources and demand.\n\n\n\nThis paper will outline the day to day working challenges encountered by the SPMHS adolescent service, staffstaff, and patients in the initial months of the \nCOVID-19 crisis and some of the strategies implemented to deal with these. \n\n\n\nIn St. Patrick’s University Hospital in Ireland, significant challenges in the adolescent service were encountered in the initial months of the COVID-19 crisis. These included cessation of face-to-face patient interactions, therapeutic leave and visiting restrictions, school closure, social restrictions, difficulties in organizing medical appointments and investigations, family stress and increased workload for staff. Strategies including telepsychiatry have enabled the delivery of an efficient and accessible adolescent service during this crisis. \n\n\n\nFuture research into how best we can support children and adolescents during COVID-19 particularly those with existing mental illness is crucial.\n\n","PeriodicalId":43326,"journal":{"name":"Adolescent Psychiatry","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4000,"publicationDate":"2021-02-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Adolescent Psychiatry","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.2174/2210676611666210202090610","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q4","JCRName":"PEDIATRICS","Score":null,"Total":0}
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COVID-19 is one of the most challenging and devastating public health emergencies we have experienced in our lifetimes. There is a growing concern that the pandemic and its imposed public health restrictions may be harming a generation of young people. This is concerning for child and adolescent psychiatry as there is already a mismatch between resources and demand.
This paper will outline the day to day working challenges encountered by the SPMHS adolescent service, staffstaff, and patients in the initial months of the
COVID-19 crisis and some of the strategies implemented to deal with these.
In St. Patrick’s University Hospital in Ireland, significant challenges in the adolescent service were encountered in the initial months of the COVID-19 crisis. These included cessation of face-to-face patient interactions, therapeutic leave and visiting restrictions, school closure, social restrictions, difficulties in organizing medical appointments and investigations, family stress and increased workload for staff. Strategies including telepsychiatry have enabled the delivery of an efficient and accessible adolescent service during this crisis.
Future research into how best we can support children and adolescents during COVID-19 particularly those with existing mental illness is crucial.
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Adolescent Psychiatry a peer-reviewed journal, aims to provide mental health professionals who work with adolescents with current information relevant to the diagnosis and treatment of psychiatric disorders in adolescents. Adolescent Psychiatry reports of original research, critical reviews of topics relevant to practitioners, clinical observations with analysis and discussion, analysis of philosophical, ethical or social aspects of the fields of psychiatry and mental health, case reports with discussions, letters, and position papers. Topics include adolescent development and developmental psychopathology, psychotherapy and other psychosocial treatment approaches, psychopharmacology, and service settings and programs. The primary focus of the work should be on adolescents, transition-aged youth, The primary focus of the work should be on adolescents, transition-aged youth, or emerging adults, that is, persons 12-24 years of age . Articles on families of adolescents, or adults who have been followed since adolescence will also be considered.