# data[].attributes.body
People quarantined for prolonged periods in cramped accommodation, sharing a bedroom with multiple occupants, or trapped at home in an abusive or coercive relationship, may be especially vulnerable to developing PTSD symptoms during and after the outbreak.

Collocations

# data[].attributes.body
And those who adjusted better to self-isolation – that is, people who are open to new experiences, optimistic and emotionally stable – are more likely to fare well during and after the pandemic. Not everyone possesses these characteristics, but people can improve their resilience by learning new coping strategies, through practices like cognitive behavioural therapy.

COGNITIVE-BEHAVIORAL THERAPIES

The cognitive and cognitive-behavioral interventions are among the best supported and most widely practiced of the psychosocial interventions. These approaches are based on the notion that thinking plays a role in the etiology or maintenance of the psychological disorders and seek to reduce distress and to enhance coping by changing maladaptive beliefs and teaching new information-processing skills. The various approaches differ in the role they accord to cognitive change in their explanatory models and therefore use cognitive and behavioral strategies to different extents and for different reasons. Nonetheless, they all address the role of cognition in treatment and many refer to them under the general rubric of cognitive-behavior therapy (CBT).

The cognitive and cognitive-behavioral interventions are efﬁcacious and speciﬁc in the treatment of a variety of clinical disorders and often the psychosocial treatment of choice. They are at least as efﬁcacious as medications for most nonpsychotic disorders and have an enduring effect that pharmacotherapy must be continued or maintained to match. In the several decades since they were ﬁrst introduced they have garnered the most empirical support and become the most widely practiced approach to psychosocial treatment in the ﬁeld. This is a very impressive record of success.
Some of the most dramatic breakthroughs in the past few decades have come in the treatment of the anxiety disorders. CBT is efﬁcacious and speciﬁc in the treatment of panic, health anxiety (hypochondriasis), GAD [Generalized Anxiety Disorder], social phobia, and PTSD [Post Traumatic Stress Disorder].

(Hollon SD, Beck AT. Lambert MJ (ed.). Bergin and Garfield's Handbook of Psychotherapy, chapter 11,  "Cognitive and Cognitive-Behavioural Therapies".)

# data[].attributes.body
Isolation (...), even if only for a few weeks, can cause lasting anxiety.

Collocations

# data[].attributes.body
Altruism and generosity

People reached out to the physically isolated with offers of help.

To be coping well. Related words

To experience renewed purpose and meaning in their lives

To adjuste better to self-isolation

To be open to new experiences, optimistic and emotionally stable

To improve their resilience. Related words

# data[].attributes.body
Growing anxiety

To have intense fears about becoming infected. Collocations

Panic-buying

Proliferation of conspiracy thories

Sporadic instances of looting

To become fastidious germophobes

Striving to avoid touching ‘contaminated' surfaces

To endure financial hardship

Suffer the devastation of losing loved ones

To collapse under the pressure of lockdown.

To heighten their anxieties  Related words

To developed the disorder  Collocations

# data[].attributes.body
In an ongoing research project with fellow psychologist Gordon Asmundson, we evaluated reported levels of fear and anxiety among almost 7,000 adults from Canada and the US. While 75% of respondents seem to be coping well, 25% have developed what we’ve called COVID stress syndrome. These people have intense fears about becoming infected; they worry about the social and economic impact of COVID-19; they have coronavirus nightmares and persistently check the internet for news related to COVID-19, which may further heighten their anxieties. These people also tend to be xenophobic – they are wary of foreigners, who they fear may be carriers of the virus.

Syndrome: collocations

# data[].attributes.body
The many people who volunteered to help others during the pandemic will experience renewed purpose and meaning in their lives.

# data[].attributes.body
(...) we evaluated reported levels of fear and anxiety among almost 7,000 adults from Canada and the US. While 75% of respondents seem to be coping well, 25% have developed what we’ve called COVID stress syndrome. These people have intense fears about becoming infected; they worry about the social and economic impact of COVID-19; they have coronavirus nightmares and persistently check the internet for news related to COVID-19, which may further heighten their anxieties. These people also tend to be xenophobic – they are wary of foreigners, who they fear may be carriers of the virus.

Syndrome: collocations
Stress: collocations

# data[].attributes.body
The hallmarks of previous pandemics

Some of my predictions about coronavirus have proved eerily correct.

Fears stoked by a deluge of online articles

The outbreak may have further entrenched the direction in which society was already heading

Risk-averse, digitally connected people could continue retreating to the safety of home.

genetic makeup

# data[].attributes.body
A number of people who had been hospitalised with SARS in 2003 later developed PTSD. A four-year follow-up study of 70 SARS survivors found that 44% of people developed the disorder. Even after recovering from SARS, 82% of these people had PTSD years later. PTSD symptoms tended to be more severe in people who had a high mortality risk, low social support, and close relatives who suffered or died from SARS.

# data[].attributes.body
Anxiety about your own mortality, fears stoked by a deluge of online articles: these are the most obvious psychological effects of coronavirus. Others may be less obvious at first. Based on studies of disasters such as floods, hurricanes and earthquakes, an estimated 10% of people affected by traumatic events go on to develop severe psychological problems such as mood disorders, anxiety disorders or post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). These symptoms typically arise soon after the disaster. Such findings suggest that 10% of people affected by coronavirus – possibly more – will develop psychological disorders during or after this pandemic.