Ultra Brief Psychological Interventions for COVID-19 Pandemic: Introduction of a Locally-Adapted Brief Intervention for Mental Health and Psychosocial Support Service

The ultra-brief psychological interventions (UBPI) was created in 2018 to empower healthcare providers with psychological skills that can be delivered within a short period. Techniques used within UBPI were adopted from a variety of well established psychotherapies and distilled into its core essent...

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Main Authors: Nicholas Pang Tze Ping, Wendy Diana Shoesmith, Sandi James, Noor Melissa Nor Hadi, Eugene Koh Boon Yau, Loo Jiann Lin
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Published: 2020
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https://doi.org/10.21315/mjms2020.27.2.6
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spelling my.ums.eprints.261902020-10-23T10:54:56Z https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/26190/ Ultra Brief Psychological Interventions for COVID-19 Pandemic: Introduction of a Locally-Adapted Brief Intervention for Mental Health and Psychosocial Support Service Nicholas Pang Tze Ping Wendy Diana Shoesmith Sandi James Noor Melissa Nor Hadi Eugene Koh Boon Yau Loo Jiann Lin R Medicine (General) The ultra-brief psychological interventions (UBPI) was created in 2018 to empower healthcare providers with psychological skills that can be delivered within a short period. Techniques used within UBPI were adopted from a variety of well established psychotherapies and distilled into its core essentials. This enabled practitioners of UBPI to deliver specific psychological skills in the appropriate context to the client within a period of 15–20 min. UBPI was also manualised to standardised training of practitioners. During the novel coronavirus disease of 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, UBPI was modified to suit the unique psychological demands of the pandemic. This article presents how UBPI was adapted and used with healthcare providers dealing with COVID-19 and also with the public who required psychological first aid (PFA). 2020 Article PeerReviewed text en https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/26190/1/Ultra%20Brief%20Psychological%20Interventions%20for%20COVID-19%20Pandemic.pdf text en https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/26190/2/Ultra%20Brief%20Psychological%20Interventions%20for%20COVID-19%20Pandemic1.pdf Nicholas Pang Tze Ping and Wendy Diana Shoesmith and Sandi James and Noor Melissa Nor Hadi and Eugene Koh Boon Yau and Loo Jiann Lin (2020) Ultra Brief Psychological Interventions for COVID-19 Pandemic: Introduction of a Locally-Adapted Brief Intervention for Mental Health and Psychosocial Support Service. Malays J Med Sci., 27 (2). pp. 51-56. https://doi.org/10.21315/mjms2020.27.2.6
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Nicholas Pang Tze Ping
Wendy Diana Shoesmith
Sandi James
Noor Melissa Nor Hadi
Eugene Koh Boon Yau
Loo Jiann Lin
Ultra Brief Psychological Interventions for COVID-19 Pandemic: Introduction of a Locally-Adapted Brief Intervention for Mental Health and Psychosocial Support Service
description The ultra-brief psychological interventions (UBPI) was created in 2018 to empower healthcare providers with psychological skills that can be delivered within a short period. Techniques used within UBPI were adopted from a variety of well established psychotherapies and distilled into its core essentials. This enabled practitioners of UBPI to deliver specific psychological skills in the appropriate context to the client within a period of 15–20 min. UBPI was also manualised to standardised training of practitioners. During the novel coronavirus disease of 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, UBPI was modified to suit the unique psychological demands of the pandemic. This article presents how UBPI was adapted and used with healthcare providers dealing with COVID-19 and also with the public who required psychological first aid (PFA).
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author Nicholas Pang Tze Ping
Wendy Diana Shoesmith
Sandi James
Noor Melissa Nor Hadi
Eugene Koh Boon Yau
Loo Jiann Lin
author_facet Nicholas Pang Tze Ping
Wendy Diana Shoesmith
Sandi James
Noor Melissa Nor Hadi
Eugene Koh Boon Yau
Loo Jiann Lin
author_sort Nicholas Pang Tze Ping
title Ultra Brief Psychological Interventions for COVID-19 Pandemic: Introduction of a Locally-Adapted Brief Intervention for Mental Health and Psychosocial Support Service
title_short Ultra Brief Psychological Interventions for COVID-19 Pandemic: Introduction of a Locally-Adapted Brief Intervention for Mental Health and Psychosocial Support Service
title_full Ultra Brief Psychological Interventions for COVID-19 Pandemic: Introduction of a Locally-Adapted Brief Intervention for Mental Health and Psychosocial Support Service
title_fullStr Ultra Brief Psychological Interventions for COVID-19 Pandemic: Introduction of a Locally-Adapted Brief Intervention for Mental Health and Psychosocial Support Service
title_full_unstemmed Ultra Brief Psychological Interventions for COVID-19 Pandemic: Introduction of a Locally-Adapted Brief Intervention for Mental Health and Psychosocial Support Service
title_sort ultra brief psychological interventions for covid-19 pandemic: introduction of a locally-adapted brief intervention for mental health and psychosocial support service
publishDate 2020
url https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/26190/1/Ultra%20Brief%20Psychological%20Interventions%20for%20COVID-19%20Pandemic.pdf
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