Xinhua News Agency, Wuhan, April 25 (Reporters Tan Yuanbin, Yu Jie) How to solve the psychological problems such as tension and fear caused by the epidemic? Hubei has conducted psychological assistance and crisis intervention in an orderly manner to help people stabilize their emotions. At least one psychological hotline for epidemic assistance has been opened in all cities and prefectures in the province.
At the routine press conference held on the 25th Hubei Province New Coronary Pneumonia Epidemic Prevention and Control Headquarters, Liu Zhongchun, director of the Hubei Provincial People's Hospital Mental Health Center and Hubei Province New Coronary Pneumonia Epidemic Prevention and Control Psychological Crisis Intervention Expert Group, introduced Hubei ’s psychological development Information about aid and crisis intervention.
He said that after the outbreak, Hubei set up a provincial emergency psychological crisis intervention expert group to organize and coordinate the relevant experts of the province ’s mental health, mental health related associations, societies, universities and social voluntary organizations to coordinate the promotion of psychological assistance and crisis intervention. The expert group organized and implemented psychological crisis intervention work in designated hospitals and sheltered hospitals. The work includes guidance and urging of designated hospitals to set up "psychological stations" for medical staff; give full play to the role of nursing staff in psychological services, and organize psychological assistance training for nurses; oriented Medical staff and patients develop a "strong lung psychological support system" to provide psychological assistance. In addition, it also focuses on the development of a psychological assistance hotline to strengthen mental health education and popularization of science. To ensure the operation of the psychological assistance hotline, Hubei recruited a psychological hotline service team.
Liu Zhongchun said that after the epidemic has gradually stabilized, the scope and methods of psychological rescue services in Hubei have also changed dynamically, with the focus shifting from designated hospitals, sheltered hospitals, isolation points, and rehabilitation stations to community-based services. Negative emotions such as anxiety and depression are needed for patients with new coronary pneumonia and their family members who need psychological help. They can call the psychological hotline, scan the QR code of the psychological support platform, or seek professional psychological counseling.
He said that in the normalization of prevention and control, it is necessary to establish a psychological assistance service mechanism of party and government leadership, department coordination, and the participation of the whole society; to establish a localized mental health service team that can serve the people for a long time; to innovate services mode.