Revista Universitară de Sociologie (Apr 2021)
SOCIAL PROJECTS FOR PERSONS WITH MENTAL HEALTH DISORDERS, WITHIN THE PANDEMIC CONTEXT
Abstract
In the century of technological evolution and artificial intelligence, of advanced social and medical statistics calculations, of high-performance medical research, a virus paradoxically caused and inexplicable and incontrollable pandemic. Its effects are measured on a short and medium term only in human losses, but the psycho-social and economic impact is on the long term. An entire world of direct reality relocated itself within the virtual, as a consequence of the local and world governmental measures that quarantined the population, in order to protect it from COVID-19. Which were the changes in the dynamics of social life that were triggered by these decisions regarding isolation and physical distancing? For some of us, political decisions stimulated the build-up of resilience and adapting mechanisms for the new context, for others it increased the feeling of alienation and started an alteration of the mental health status. But what about those that already had it installed? To them and to those which were diagnosed with mental illnesses during the Coronavirus pandemic we dedicate our communication, focused on the analysis of local and national interventions meant to offer direct support services by means of the social projects. Our article aims at studying the reactions of the authorities in the social and health field, during the emergency and alert state, concerning the needs of the persons registered with mental health conditions and also the interventions of the social society, coagulated in order to provide support for this vulnerable category. The analysis of qualitative information will aim to compare local examples to international ones and to create successful methodological patterns, with the purpose of reapplying or extending those functional projects, particularly at local and regional level.
