The power of disconnection during the COVID-19 emergency: From isolation to reparation.
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The coronavirus disease 2019 represents an unprecedented threat to human health worldwide. In the absence of a specific available cure for this disease, countries are adopting mitigation strategies that largely depend on physical distancing, with a dramatic restriction of social contacts. Whereas the psychological burden related to the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic is starting to be well characterized by population-based surveys, we would like to capitalize from infant research evidence about the potentials of psychological reparation for human trauma and disconnection. Reparation can be defined as the human ability to coregulate emotions and to resolve interactive mismatches and separations by reciprocally engaging in attuned interactive exchanges capable of expanding our capacities for resilience. Alongside economical and medical health solutions, investing in psychological, emotional, and affective reparatory acts is warranted to be a key component of the recovery strategies worldwide. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved).
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Home-visiting may provide a social resource in the face of the isolation and trauma experienced by expecting mothers during the COVID-19 pandemic.
“Home-visiting may provide a social resource in the face of the isolation and trauma experienced by expecting mothers during the COVID-19 pandemic (Provenzi & Tronick, 2020).”
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- Authors
- Provenzi, L., & Tronick, E.
- Affiliations
- Fondazione Istituto Neurologico Nazionale Casimiro Mondino (IT)
- University of Massachusetts Boston (US)
- ORCID
- Provenzi, Livio
- Venue
- Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy
- Published
- 2020-08
- Volume
- 12
- Issue
- S1
- Pages
- S252-S254
- ISSN
- 1942-9681 (ISSN-L)
- 1942-969X
- PMC
- PMC8767960
- OpenAlex
- W3033716922
- Cited by
- 29
- References
- 21
- Citations by year
- 2025: 3 · 2024: 2 · 2023: 4 · 2022: 5 · 2021: 11 · 2020: 4
- FWCI
- 2.40
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- hybrid
- doi.org
- Locations
- Psychological Trauma Theory Research Practice and Policy (publishedVersion, other-oa)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- Funders
- Italian Ministry of Health
- National Institutes of Health
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › COVID-19 and Mental Health
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Psychoanalysis and Psychopathology Research
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Attachment and Relationship Dynamics
- Keywords
- COVID-19 pandemic, social disconnection, attunement, resilience, social isolation, psychological trauma, recovery strategies, social distancing
- MeSH terms
- Psychological Trauma, Psychiatric Rehabilitation, COVID-19, Adult, Child, Humans, Interpersonal Relations, Mental Health Services, Pneumonia, Viral, Social Isolation, Coronavirus Infections, Resilience, Psychological, Pandemics
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