Loss and Trauma in the COVID-19 Era

by John H. Harvey (Editor)

Overview

The covid pandemic (including the covid virus and its complications) killed between 3 to 7 million people, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). This unique book includes 19 chapters by an international cast of authors, addressing aspects of loss and trauma connected to the virus, including covid and posttraumatic stress, covid and love, covid and bereaved families, covid and ageism, and covid and world orderliness.

A central theme in this volume is the attempt by scholars and practitioners to include chapters that can provide hope in the midst of a sense of global darkness that accompanied the burgeoning spread of the virus in 2020. It explores a range of covid-related topics that bear on loss and trauma.  The book is a valuable read for scholars and students researching on and dealing with trauma, as well as by practitioners working with clients who have covid-related problems. The book will also benefit general readers interested in impacts of the pandemic on loss and trauma.

The chapters in this book were originally published as two special issues in Journal of Loss and Trauma.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781032647869
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	05/27/2025
Pages:	190
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 10.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

John H. Harvey is Professor Emeritus Psychology at the University of Iowa, USA. His research and writing foci have been on loss and trauma and interpersonal relationships. He is the founding Editor of the Journal of Loss and Trauma.

 

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Table of Contents

Introduction: JLT and the Coronavirus  1. Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) and Traumatic Stress: Probable Risk Factors and Correlates of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder  2. Managing COVID-19 in a Large Urban Research-Intensive University  3. Romantic Love in the Age of COVID-19  4. Reaction to the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Influence of Meaning in Life, Life Satisfaction, and Assumptions on World Orderliness and Positivity  5. Longing for a Familiar Way of Going Forward  6. The COVID-19 Pandemic Crisis: The Loss and Trauma Event of Our Time  7. Philippine Teachers’ Practices to Deal with Anxiety amid COVID-19  8. Mental Health and Its Influencing Factors among Self-Isolating Ordinary Citizens during the Beginning Epidemic of COVID-19  9. A Glimpse of University Students’ Family Life Amidst the COVID-19 Virus  10. Stranded College Students amid Corona Virus Disease 2019 Pandemic: An Existential Phenomenology  11. A Researcher and Survivor of the Holocaust Connect and Make Meaning during the COVID-19 Pandemic  12. Impact of COVID-19 on Athletes and Coaches, and Their Values in Japan: Repercussions of Postponing the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games  13. Defining a ‘Risk Group’ and Ageism in the Era of COVID-19  14. Knowledge, Attitudes, Anxiety, and Coping Strategies of Students during COVID-19 Pandemic  15. Together for Hope and Resilience: A Humanistic Experience by the Vulnerability, Trauma, Resilience and Culture Lab Members during the COVID-19 Pandemic  16. The Impact of Social Uncertainty, Protests, and COVID-19 on Hong Kong Teachers  17. The Effects of Incriminating COVID-19 News on the Returning Indonesians’ Anxiety  18. COVID-19: An Australian Perspective  19. The Future That Awaits Us