Dr. Karestan C. Koenen, Professor of Psychiatric Epidemiology, has recently published “All In This Together, Yet Alone In Our Grief” in Thrive Global and was also featured in “Poll: Many Americans feel lonely and anxious during pandemic” by ABC News.
In All In This Together…, Dr. Koenen writes about the challenges of bereavement during the COVID-19 pandemic and calls on national and local leaders to acknowledge the collective grief that is being experienced nationwide and worldwide. In Many Americans feel lonely, Dr. Koenen talks about how physical distancing, closed schools and daycares, and other changes as a result of the coronavirus is affecting people’s mental health.
