2020 Pandemics

The Covid-19 pandemic has become an unprecedented and complex health social economic educational and psychological challenge. Thus the psychological factor is decisive for the success of the methods adopted by the World Health Organization to prevent the spread of infection in the absence of scientifically supported vaccines and antiviral therapies the side effects of quarantine isolation and the subsequent economic and labor perspectives after the pandemic. In this sense the purpose of this article is to analyze the psychological factors of the pandemic in order to adapt relevant mental health intervention strategies. To achieve this objective databases with relevance to the areas of Health Psychiatry and Psychology were elected in order to analyze the most recent publications related to psychology and Covid-19. Finally the importance of planning and coordinating strategies for psychological care during the pandemic (and after it) is observed considering a scenario that shows the probability of an unprecedented psychological crisis.