SOME EFFECTS OF COVID-19 PANDEMIC ON PSYCHOTHERAPY/NEKI UTJECAJI PANDEMIJE COVID-19 NA PSIHOTERAPIJU

Psychotherapy is an independent, interdisciplinary science that encompasses psychotherapeutic directions based on scientific principles and methods. Thro ugh the psychotherapeutic process, psychotherapy aims to achieve personal growth, remove or lessen the intensity of existing psychosocial, psychosomatic and behavioral problems and suffering, as well as help develop more functional patterns of behavior and experiences of interpersonal relationships or value systems. Research has shown that the COVID-19 pandemic has had a strong impact on psychotherapy in terms of the way it is carried out, change in the environment in which it is performed, and online psychotherapy has been introduced. The aim of this study was to find information, through available literature, on the impact of the pandemic on mental health and psychotherapy, and also to spread awareness about the current identified risks connected to the greater morbidity of psychiatric disorders and diseases and the need of psychotherapeutic interventions. Previous studies have shown that the pandemic increased the incidence of psychological disorders and diseases and the need of psychological intervention. Available data have shown that in the times of strict epidemiological measures during the COVID-19 pandemic, certain modifications of the psychotherapeutic process were made in terms of the use of online psychotherapy. Key words: Psychotherapy; COVID-19; SARS-CoV2; Mental health; Telemedicine Psihoterapija je nezavisna interdisciplinarna znanost i djelatnost koja obuhvaca psihoterapijske smjerove utemeljene na znanstvenim nacelima i metodama. Cilj psihoterapije je kroz psihoterapijski proces poticati osobni razvoj, ukloniti ili ublaziti intenzitet postojecih psihosocijalnih, psihosomatskih i ponasajnih smetnja ili patnja te pomoci u razvijanju funkcionalnijih obrazaca ponasanja i dozivljavanja interpersonalnih odnosa ili sustava vrijednosti. Dosadasnja istrazivanja pokazuju da je pandemija COVID-19 znacajno utjecala na psihoterapiju, nacin na koji se ona izvodi, okruzenje u kojem se izvodi uz uvodenje online psihoterapije. Cilj ovog rada bio je pretrazivanjem dostupne literature pronaci podatke o utjecaju pandemije na dusevno zdravlje i psihoterapiju te upozoriti na dosada otkrivene rizike vezano za povecanje pobola od psihijatrijskih poremecaja i bolesti. Prema dosadasnjim istrazivanjima pandemija je povecala incidenciju nekih psihickih poremecaja i bolesti te potrebu za psihoterapijskim intervencij