“…Government-imposed “lockdowns” and “stay-at-home” orders designed to minimize social contact effectively slowed the spread of the pandemic ( Atalan, 2020 ), but their effects on psychological well-being in populations around the world have been profound ( Pfefferbaum and North, 2020 ; Torales et al, 2020 ). For example, studies have shown pandemic-related increases in feelings of loneliness and isolation ( Stieger et al, 2021 ), acute stress ( Holman et al, 2020 ; Javelle et al, 2021 ; Liu et al, 2020 ), anxiety ( Ahmed et al, 2020 ), depression ( Holman et al, 2020 ; Kantor and Kantor, 2020 ), and other negative emotions ( Lades et al, 2020 ) and behaviors such as suicide ( O'Connor et al, 2021 ). These collective impacts are so severe that some scholars are referring to the mental health spillover from COVID-19 as the “second pandemic” ( Choi et al, 2020 ).…”