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The COVID Coach app was created for everyone, including Veterans and Service members, to support self-care and overall mental health during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. Features include: Education about coping during the pandemic. Tools for self-care and to improve emotional well-being. Trackers to check your mood and measure your growth toward personal goals. Graphs to visualize progress over time. COVID Coach can be used as a stand-alone education and self-care tool, or as a supplement to professional mental health care. You can mark your favorite coping tools and track your mental health over time. Set reminders to visit the app each day and work toward your goals. The app can also help you create your own personal support network. NOTE: COVID Coach is not intended to replace needed professional care related to COVID-19 or mental health conditions, such as PTSD.
Several of the questionnaires used in COVID Coach, including the PTSD Checklist (PCL-5), are reliable and valid self-report measures used across VA, Department of Defense (DoD), and the community, but they are not intended to replace professional evaluation. The app is available for download for free at the Apple store and on Google Play

Identification and treatment of early onset mental disorders, including depression.

Led by: Joan Luby, MD

The Feighner Criteria is the informal name given to influential psychiatric diagnostic criteria developed at Washington University from the late 1950s to the early 1970s.