Ultra Brief Psychological Interventions for COVID-19 Pandemic: Introduction of a Locally-Adapted Brief Intervention for Mental Health and Psychosocial Support Service
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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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- Authors
- Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, U. M. S., Tze Ping, N. P., Shoesmith, W. D., Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, U. M. S., James, S., Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, U. M. S., Department of Social Work and Social Policy, S. O. S., Nor Hadi, N. M., Department of Psychiatry and Mental Health, H. T. F., Boon Yau, E. K., Department of Psychiatry, F. O. M. A. H. S., Jiann Lin, L., & Queensway Clinic, C. A. N. W. L. N. F. T.
- Affiliations
- Universiti of Malaysia Sabah (MY)
- Venue
- Malaysian Journal of Medical Sciences
- Publisher
- Universiti Sains Malaysia
- Published
- 2020
- Volume
- 27
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 51-56
- ISSN
- 1394-195X (ISSN-L)
- 2180-4303
- PMC
- PMC7409577
- OpenAlex
- W3020931590
- Cited by
- 53
- References
- 8
- Citations by year
- 2025: 3 · 2023: 5 · 2022: 12 · 2021: 23 · 2020: 10
- FWCI
- 5.00
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- diamond
- doi.org
- Licence
- cc-by
- Locations
- Malaysian Journal of Medical Sciences (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- UMS Institutional Repository (Universiti Malaysia Sabah) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › COVID-19 and Mental Health
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Applied Psychology › Digital Mental Health Interventions
- Keywords
- COVID-19 pandemic, psychological first aid, mental health support, psychosocial support, healthcare workers, brief psychotherapy, practitioner training, manualized intervention, intervention adaptation
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