“…As such, the concept of disaster may easily apply to the COVID-19 pandemic, given its local and global implications, and the necessary efforts to mitigate any psychological, social, and economic consequences. Indeed, the pandemic is being experienced by a significant number of individuals and communities, involving, for an indefinite period of time, serious challenges, not just for individuals, but also for families, communities, societies, governments and economies (Benight et al, 2010 ; Duan & Zhu, 2020 ; Hoffman & Kruczek, 2011 ; Raphael & Maguire, 2010 ; Venuleo et al, 2020 ). Moreover, psychosocial interventions targeting health promotion may need to focus on how individuals reconstruct their meaning of the world, in order to restore individual core beliefs, through processes of sense of coherence, predictability, metaphors, and narratives (Castiglioni & Gaj, 2020 ).…”