Counselling preparedness and responsiveness of industrial psychologists in the face of COVID-19

Abstract

The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has brought to the forefront the need for industrial-organisational psychologists (IOPs) and organisations to place an emphasis on employees’ mental and physical health at all times. The purpose of the research was to determine how prepared IOPs are to counsel employees during the pandemic and how responsive they are to provide counselling.It is not clear to what extent such counselling is being practised by IOPs in the workplace during the COVID-19 pandemic.