COVID-19, prenatal effects and the well-being of the next generations

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https://doi.org/10.53870/silex.2023132257

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Mental Health, ACES, Transgenerational, Pandemic

Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic has had consequences on mental health in all age groups, but this time we focus on the prenatal stage to highlight the early traumatic effects and the need to identify them and act on them in order to minimize their repercussions both on life future adulthood as well as in subsequent generations. The Developmental Origins of Health and Disease (DOHaD) theory, the role of epigenetics, Adverse Childhood Experience (ACE) studies, and retention of primitive reflexes are reviewed, and the role of each one in the development of human potential within a society interested in the well-being of its citizens.

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Author Biography

Walter Jesús Ojeda Murguía, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos

Docente universitario entre 2011 y 2018 en la Escuela de Psicología de la Universidad César Vallejo. Ponente en diversos congresos de psicoterapia. Ha escrito: Secuelas del conflicto armado interno: una perspectiva transgeneracional. Revista de Psicología (Trujillo). 2020, 21(2), 117–132; Fritz Perls: una biografía psicosomática (2019); El árbol psicogenealógico de Jesús (2017). Revista Solaris: Lima; El Papel de la modificación de conciencia en la salud (2016). Revista Solaris: Lima; El Daño o Brujería. Una mirada psicobiológica y transpersonal (2009).

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Published

2024-03-12

How to Cite

Ojeda Murguía, W. J. (2024). COVID-19, prenatal effects and the well-being of the next generations. Sílex, 13(2), 122–143. https://doi.org/10.53870/silex.2023132257