COVID-19 Epidemic Peer Support and Crisis Intervention Via Social Media

COVID-19 Epidemic Peer Support and Crisis Intervention Via Social Media

This article describes a peer support project developed and carried out by a group of experienced mental health professionals, organized to offer peer psychological support from overseas to healthcare professionals on the frontline of the COVID-19 outbreak in Wuhan, China. This pandemic extremely ch...

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Published in:Community mental health journal Vol. 56; no. 5; pp. 786 - 792
Main Authors: Cheng, Pu, Xia, Guohua, Pang, Peng, Wu, Bo, Jiang, Wei, Li, Yong-Tong, Wang, Mei, Ling, Qi, Chang, Xiaoying, Wang, Jinghan, Dai, Xiaocheng, Lin, Xiaojin, Bi, Xiaoting
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: New York Springer US 01-07-2020
Springer Nature B.V
Subjects:
Australia
Canada
China
Community and Environmental Psychology
Coronavirus Infections - psychology
Coronaviruses
COVID-19
Crisis intervention
Crisis Intervention - methods
Emergency preparedness
Epidemics
Fresh Focus
Health care
Health Personnel - psychology
Health services
Humans
Infrastructure
International Cooperation
Medical personnel
Medicine
Medicine & Public Health
Mental Health
Mental health professionals
Mobile Applications
Occupational Health
Pandemics
Peer Group
Peer tutoring
Pneumonia, Viral - psychology
Psychiatry
Psychological distress
Psychological support
Smartphone
Social Media
Social networks
Social Support
Teams
United States
Canada
Australia
United States
China
COVID
Emotional stage
Social media
Mental health
Peer support
Crisis intervention
Smart phone
Healthcare personnel
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Summary:This article describes a peer support project developed and carried out by a group of experienced mental health professionals, organized to offer peer psychological support from overseas to healthcare professionals on the frontline of the COVID-19 outbreak in Wuhan, China. This pandemic extremely challenged the existing health care systems and caused severe mental distress to frontline healthcare workers. The authors describe the infrastructure of the team and a novel model of peer support and crisis intervention that utilized a popular social media application on smartphone. Such a model for intervention that can be used elsewhere in the face of current global pandemic, or future disaster response.
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ISSN:0010-3853
1573-2789
DOI:10.1007/s10597-020-00624-5