The Science of Complex Systems Is Needed to Ameliorate the Impacts of COVID-19 on Mental Health

Front Psychiatry. 2020 Nov 25:11:606035. doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2020.606035. eCollection 2020.

Jo-An Atkinson^{1

2}, Yun Ju Christine Song¹, Kathleen R Merikangas³, Adam Skinner¹, Ante Prodan^{1

2

4}, Frank Iorfino¹, Louise Freebairn^{1

5}, Danya Rose¹, Nicholas Ho¹, Jacob Crouse¹, Vadim Zipunnikov⁶, Ian B Hickie¹

¹ Youth Mental Health and Technology, Brain and Mind Centre, Faculty of Medicine and Health, University of Sydney, Camperdown, NSW, Australia.
² Computer Simulation and Advanced Research Technologies (CSART), Sydney, NSW, Australia.
³ Intramural Research Program, National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, MD, United States.
⁴ School of Computer, Data and Mathematical Sciences, Western Sydney University, Penrith, NSW, Australia.
⁵ The Australian Prevention Partnership Centre, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
⁶ Department of Biostatistics, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States.

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Keywords: COVID-19; mental health; recession; simulation; suicide prevention; systems modeling.