**Question 5: what are the basic psychosocial counseling principles for COVID-19 positive patients and other significant persons?**

The psychosocial counseling principles for understanding and addressing the mental health needs of individuals who are awaiting results of COVID-19 tests confirmed COVID-19 individuals, health care workers working in COVID isolation hospitals and their family members from a nonjudgmental and empathic attitude include:


Psychotherapeutic approaches that could be deployed for COVID-19 affected persons are approaches in response to disasters, including psychological debriefing, psychological first aid, cognitive-behavioral approaches, crisis intervention, screening and triage models, problem-solving interventions, rumor control, and conflict mitigation [55].

Clinical, counseling, psychotherapeutic and rehabilitation options for special and vulnerable populations, such as pediatric patients, pregnant women, mothers, older people, PLWDs, and other marginalized groups with suspected or confirmed cases, as well as reporting and grief counseling of COVID-19-related death. However, there is also no known coordinated and multidisciplinary continuum of clinical, counseling, and psychotherapy COVID-19 care pathways for symptomatic and asymptomatic patients and their families in the African States. Hence, there was a need for this study that attempts to run a scoping analysis of existing literature on the psychosocial and health implications of COVID-19 Comorbidity-Related Complications for vulnerable persons in developing societies.

*A Scoping Analysis of the Psychosocial and Health Implications of COVID-19… DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.104546*
