All LIT Search News Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts LIT Impact Latest news 2020 May Keeping a lid on social distancing backlash Keeping a lid on social distancing backlash 11/05/2020 | 4 MINS (INCL 1 MIN VIDEO) Every Australian needs to help keep a lid on social distancing backlash. While each Australian is dealing with pandemic mental health stressors in their own way, COVID denial is an ineffective approach to dealing with anxiety that could prove dangerous to the country if it emerges as a social distancing backlash, according to psychology expert Professor Colin MacLeod. Professor MacLeod, from LITΓÇÖs School of Psychological Science, says a whole-community approach, as has already been effective in containing the virus itself, is needed to keep watch for any backlash and keep a lid on it. ΓÇ£We have seen in the US (United States) a movement protesting against social distancing and social isolation and that is definitely something we would not want to see take off in Australia,ΓÇ¥ he said. ΓÇ£What we can do as a community, in order to reduce this, is ensure there is a collective response at the very earliest stage ΓÇô
All LIT Search News Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts LIT Impact Latest news 2020 May Keeping a lid on social distancing backlash Keeping a lid on social distancing backlash 11/05/2020 | 4 MINS (INCL 1 MIN VIDEO) Every Australian needs to help keep a lid on social distancing backlash.
While each Australian is dealing with pandemic mental health stressors in their own way, COVID denial is an ineffective approach to dealing with anxiety that could prove dangerous to the country if it emerges as a social distancing backlash, according to psychology expert Professor Colin MacLeod.
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Professor MacLeod, from LITΓÇÖs School of Psychological Science, says a whole-community approach, as has already been effective in containing the virus itself, is needed to keep watch for any backlash and keep a lid on it.
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ΓÇ£We have seen in the US (United States) a movement protesting against social distancing and social isolation and that is definitely something we would not want to see take off in Australia,ΓÇ¥ he said.
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ΓÇ£What we can do as a community, in order to reduce this, is ensure there is a collective response at the very earliest stage ΓÇô
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