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There has been a lot of buzz in psychology circles about the sudden shift that the field has made to offer services remotely. COVID-19 and the strict social distancing requirements that followed might have been what kickstarted the trend, but there’s good reason to believe that telehealth will be a very normal way to provide…

Some psychologists trying to stay productive while isolating at home have been preparing for the big wave of COVID-19-related mental health issues by combing through the research on past pandemics to get an idea of what types of issues to expect. This has led many of us in the field to unearth a body of…

Like a lot of other work that used to be conducted primarily in person, counseling and therapy services have been abruptly shifting to an online-only format – all while trying to figure out where we fall on the essential services totem and interpret the mixed bag of stay-at-home orders handed down from state and local…

With sirens constantly sounding through the streets of the major cities of the world, and bodies piling up in temporary morgues set up in freezer trucks outside hospitals, the physical effects of the COVID-19 pandemic are gripping the attention of the world right now. With the worst yet to come, that focus isn’t going to…

The Six Things You Can’t Live Without When COVID-19 Forces Your Psychology Program to Go Online With all the chaos that COVID-19 is unleashing on the world, the plight of college students in traditional psychology programs who suddenly find themselves going exclusively online isn’t something that’s exactly grabbing headlines. Still, we get it— the waves…

By Scott Wilson The reality of the worldwide coronavirus pandemic is starting to set in for everyone. For grocery store staff it means hordes of toilet paper scavengers ravaging the shelves from dawn until closing. For first responders, doctors, and nurses, it means dealing with the horrific life and death choices of critically ill patients…

By Scott Wilson Let’s be honest; if you are the average parent, you probably wanted to kill your kids four or five times a day even before you were stuck inside with them 24/7 for what is starting to look like will be… a very long time. This isn’t going to be like the world’s…

By Scott Wilson It didn’t take long for the memes to hit the web as companies started complying with mandatory quarantine policies by shifting all employees who could do their jobs remotely to work-from-home status: a stream of posts about “new coworkers” that feature pet photos… the obligatory no-pants teleconferencing selfies… tweets about the joys…