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• Project title: Policrisis and Mental health of yuong people
• Type: Project looking for partner
• Organisation: Institute of Psychology Jagiellonian University in Cracow Poland
• Country: Poland (PL)

Research area

• Call theme: Enhancing well-being for the future
• Keywords:

  The policrisis (cumulative stress: pandemic war refugee migration climate crisis and related economic crisis) on the mental health of young people.

• Brief description of your expertise / expertise you are looking for:

  Bernadetta Izydorczyk, professor at the Institute of Psychology of the Faculty of Philosophy of the Jagiellonian University.He is a member of the NeuroSmog Project Management Committee at the Institute of Psychology in Jagiellonian Univeristy. Her area of interest includes psychological and social resources and risk factors for the development of mental health and disorders in young adults, children and adolescents. Scientific achievements are related to the subject of clinical psychology, health and psychological aspects of dealing with crises in the context of diagnosis, psychological help in psychotherapy and the search for protective factors in the prevention of disorders in adolescents and young adults. She is a member of the Psychological Sciences Committee of the Polish Academy of Sciences. He is a certified specialist in clinical psychology and a specialist in psychotherapy of children and adolescents, a certified psychotherapist and psychotherapy supervisor of the Scientific Section of Psychotherapy and Family Therapy of the Polish Psychiatric Association, he is a psychodrama therapist and trainer at the Psychodrama Institute for Europe. Since 20215, she has been the National Consultant in the field of Clinical Psychology as a discipline in health care, and since 2016, she has also been the Chairperson of the State Examination Board of the Medical Examinations Center in the field of specialization in the field of clinical psychology and a member of the examination boards of children and youth psychotherapy and psychosexology ,he is a member of the Expert Team of the Minister of Health for the mental health of children and adolescents and the team for the pilot program of community psychiatry under the National Mental Health Protection Program of the Ministry of Health.

• Brief description of your project / the project you would like to join:

  The Research Team is still being formedoal of the project : The proposed project focuses on describing a new phenomenon which is called cumulative stress syndrome. It affects generations of people living in the accumulated stress of recent years, which is a result of negative global phenomena that have affected societies (pandemic, war in Europe, refugee migration, climate crisis and related economic crisis). We want to describe the new psychopathological symptoms associated with the cumulative stress syndrome. We also want to study the changes in the quality of mental health, psychosocial resources/risk factors and protective factors of the cumulative stress syndrome. By doing so we want to develop standards for effective prevention. The novelty of the study: In our opinion, the phenomenon of cumulative stress goes beyond the classifications of stress reactions used so far, and the available epidemiological data are not sufficient to determine the factors of impact of cumulative stress in 2020-2023 on the mental health. What is needed is a comprehensive understanding of risk factors and protective factors, the path leading to the development of symptoms (not observed before), and coping strategies among generations living under cumulative conditions of stress. As it was not studied before, it will be innovative to the scientific world how young people, especially at the stage of life "emerging adults" will cope with the psychosocial burden of ongoing accumulated stress and the growing polycrisis. Therefore, the proposed research project is based on an interdisciplinary approach in which methods from the fields of psychology, medicine, epidemiology and social sciences will be combined. (pandemic, war, refugee migration, economic crisis). The project will focus on studying the crisis from the human (psychological-individual), institutional and ecological perspective. Specific objectives of the research project 1. Understanding the specifics of cumulative stress. 2. Development of standards and guidelines for psychologists and other specialists as well as tools for measuring risk factors and resources in the prevention of the development of post-crisis disorders. 3. Developing preventive measures to improve psychological (individual) and social (institutional) readiness for exposure to a situation of universal health threat. 4. Establishing international relations and potentially creating a network of teams dealing with the study of behavior in crisis situations. 5. Using an interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary approach in psychology and research of social institutions to determine psychological and social responses to multiple overlapping crises, such as the COVID-19 and post-COVID pandemics, the war in Ukraine and the related refugee crisis, and the climatic crisis. Main research areas - Directions of studying the crisis from the psychological perspective 1. Changes in the mental health of the generation of people living under cumulative stress (pandemic, war in Europe, refugee migration, economic and climate crisis) additionally intensified by exposure to negative information presented by the media; 2. Changes in psychopathological symptoms associated with the experience of accumulated stress (including the search for risk factors and protective factors); 3. Improving mental health: development of new diagnostic standards/classification of new psychopathological symptoms (based on accumulated stress) and prevention/mental health guidelines. Research methodology: Analysis of data collected on the basis of screening questionnaires, psychological scales and questionnaires (level of psychosocial functioning), epidemiological data; observational data: both qualitative research (e.g. narrative analysis) and quantitative research (e.g. case-control studies, cross-sectional studies); analysis of existing data: system reviews, original research. Expected results of the research project 1. Description of the cumulative stress syndrome at the theoretical level 2. Development of standards and guidelines for psychologists and other specialists to diagnose mental symptoms resulting from accumulated stress; screening scale to measure risk factors and resources in preventing the development of post-crisis disorders. 3. Identification of various individual, organizational and systemic risk factors and identification of resource support pathways as well as ways of coping in times of cumulative stress.

Bernadetta Izydorczyk

• Organisation: Institute of Psychology Jagiellonian University in Cracow Poland
• Position: Professor
• E-mail: bernadetta.izydorczyk@uj.edu.pl
• Phone: + 48/12 663 24 15
• Web: psychologia.uj.edu.pl/