Mental Health, Clinical Practice and COVID-19

Lindsay B Carey; Harold G Koenig; Jeffrey Cohen; Terrence Hill; Ezra Gabbay; Carl Aiken; Jacinda R Carey

doi:10.1007/s10943-022-01501-z

Mental Health, Clinical Practice and COVID-19

J Relig Health. 2022 Feb;61(1):1-5. doi: 10.1007/s10943-022-01501-z. Epub 2022 Jan 24.

Authors

Lindsay B Carey^{1

2}, Harold G Koenig^{3

4}, Jeffrey Cohen^{5

6}, Terrence Hill⁷, Ezra Gabbay⁸, Carl Aiken^{9

10}, Jacinda R Carey^{11

12}

Affiliations

¹ Public Health Palliative Care Unit, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia. Lindsay.Carey@latrobe.edu.au.
² Centre for Spiritually, Theology and Health, Duke University, North Carolina, USA. Lindsay.Carey@latrobe.edu.au.
³ Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, and Department of Medicine, Duke University Health Systems, Durham, NC, USA.
⁴ Division of Psychiatry, Department of Medicine, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
⁵ School of Medicine (Sydney), University of Notre, Dame, Australia.
⁶ St. Vincent's Private Hospital Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
⁷ The University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, USA.
⁸ Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, Hospital Medicine Section, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA.
⁹ Women's and Children's Hospital, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia.
¹⁰ Drew University Alumni, Maddison, NJ, USA.
¹¹ Public Health Palliative Care Unit, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia.
¹² Centre for Spiritually, Theology and Health, Duke University, North Carolina, USA.

Abstract

Three topics are explored in this first issue of the Journal of Religion and Health for 2022, namely: (1) mental health and religion, (2) clinical practice issues and the relevance of religion/spirituality, and finally (3) the continuing and expanding public health crisis of COVID-19 and the associated religious/spiritual impact and response.

Keywords: COVID-19; Clinical Practice; Medical Practice; Mental Health; Religion; Spirituality.

Publication types

Editorial

MeSH terms

COVID-19*
Humans
Mental Health*
Religion
SARS-CoV-2
Spirituality