Act or not to act? Peer support and ethical challenges in the time of COVID-19: a proposal for a comprehensive mental health response to the crisis

While peer networks can serve as a means of providing mental health support on a grassroot level, they raise ethical questions regarding their capacity: should peers be trained and their support systems be supervised? In the time of COVID-19 this ethical dilemma becomes even more challenging since we want our crisis response to be quick …

A model mental health response to COVID-19 in Hungary

While countries remain under lockdown and communities in quarantine, the inevitable individual and social consequences are more and more visible. Mental health issues are one of these: stress, anxiety and mood swings are normal human reactions to the uncertainty caused by the fast changing pandemic. Some may find it difficult to develop a new everyday …