Introduction to the Special Issue on Pandemic Impacts

Within the first few months of the COVID-19 pandemic, JPI issued a call for scholarship to inform psychotherapy with those facing long-term adverse impacts (e.g., economic insecurity or deep poverty). This issue brings together a sampling of responses spanning the variety of ways in which psychotherapists and researchers are prepared to respond and underscores the need to attend to social determinants of health. Public Health Significance StatementPandemic adversities are fundamentally intertwined with social determinants of health. As we enter the third year of the COVID-19 pandemic, inequalities of adverse impact have become readily apparent. Psychotherapists play an important role in mitigating declines in well-being among those most vulnerable.