COVID-19 and mental health | Cherie Armour | TEDxQueensUniversityBelfast
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Cherie Armour |
TEDxQueensUniversityBelfast
• June 2020
Professor Cherie Armour’s talk focuses on the COVID-19 psychological well-being study which was implemented across the four nations of the UK in 2020. This study was designed as a longitudinal data-collection exercise to identify and monitor the mental health impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the population. Professor Armour provides some early results from the data specific to Northern Ireland.
Professor Armour is a professor of psychological trauma and mental health in the school of psychology at Queens University Belfast. She is the director of the Stress Trauma and Related Conditions Research Lab and has published extensively in the field of psychotraumatology and mental health. Professor Armour has a particular interest in occupational groups that are at increased risk of experiencing trauma and traumatic stress outcomes due to their occupational roles, such as military, police, and emergency service workers.
Professor Armour has also published on the psychological impact of childhood abuse and domestic violence. She has led a programme of research on the nosology, comorbidity, and longitudinal course of disorders such as PTSD, dissociation, anxiety, and depression. Recently Professor Armour has focused on research that investigates the mechanisms that explain risk and resilience as they relate to a wide variety of mental health outcomes.
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