A recent study conducted by PolyU showed that social psychological and behaviour therapies could remarkably relieve the depression and anxiety symptoms emerged under the pandemic.
Prof. Hector Tsang, Associate Director of Mental Health Research Centre, Chair Professor and Head of the Department of Rehabilitation Sciences, and Mr Kino Lam, Clinical Associate (Occupational Therapy), wrote in a newspaper column that over concentration on anti-pandemic issues would cause persistent anxiety and might trigger emotion problems.
They suggested the Government should partner with relevant academic departments and research centres in tertiary institutions and NGOs to address citizens’ mental health issues during the pandemic, including establishment of online education channels for mental health and organise seminars to address the difficulties encountered by the public regularly.
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