COVID-19: Program to offer online therapy amid pandemic
By Tsai Ya-hua, Chang Hsuan-che and Jake Chung / Staff reporters, with staff writer
The Taiwan Counseling Psychologist Union is urging its members to provide pro-bono mental health consultation over the Internet to people who are unwilling to meet for in-person sessions amid the COVID-19 pandemic, it said on Tuesday.
The union is calling on practicing or licensed psychologists to provide psychological consultations through a union program that starts on June 30.
Since the nation entered a level 3 COVID-19 alert, there has been a spike in people experiencing mental stress, but many are unwilling to seek in-person treatment amid the outbreak, it said.