A Guide to Mental Health in Family Under the COVID-19 Epidemic

Part 1 Stress response caused by the epidemic.- 1. Stress response and its symptoms.- 2. Stages of stress response.- 3. Self-assessment of stress response.- Part 2: Self-help approaches to stress response.- 1. Understand the novel coronavirus and reduce panic.- 2. Protect yourself from panic.- 3. Restore life and eliminate panic.- 4. Accept your emotions and relieve anxiety.- 5. Change cognition for positive thinking.- 6. Shift attention and focus on others.- 7. Seek professional help to cope with panic.- Part 3: Family coping methods for stress response.- 1. How to arrange home life reasonably.- 2. How to help children through special times.- 3. How to help families with stress response.- 4. How to help quarantined family members.- 5. How to deal with strong response of family members with mental disorders History.- 6. How to deal with the loss of loved ones.- 7. How to deal with family risks.- Part 4:  How to deal with family conflicts caused by the epidemic.- 1. How to deal with family conflicts.- 2. How to improve family relationships.

Xiaoyi Fang, Ph.D., is a second-level professor of Beijing Normal University and a doctoral supervisor. He is a distinguished professor of Chang Jiang Scholars Program of Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China in 2009. Currently, he is a director of Center for Marriage and Family Research and Therapy, BNU, and a director of the Guidance Research Center for High School Students, BNU. The main research directions of Fang are marriage and family research and therapy, and adolescent addiction and mental health of primary and middle school students. At the same time, Fang is a secretary of the Social Science Commission of the Ministry of Education Department of Pedagogy and Psychology of China, a deputy secretary and a member of universities mental health experts advising committee of Ministry of Education of China, a member and deputy secretary of primary and junior schools mental health experts advising committee of Ministry of Education of China, an executive director of Chinese Psychological Society, a director of branch department of the developmental Psychology of Chinese Psychological Society, a director of China Education Association, the chairman of branch department of developmental Psychology of China Education Association, a vice-president of branch department of cognitive science of Chinese Society for Cognitive Science, the chairman of alliance for high school students guidance and development, the chairman of alliance for marriage and family research and therapy, a part-time professor of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and so on. He is the executive deputy editor of core journal Psychological Development and Education and the editorial board member of Studies of Psychology and Behavior and Chinese Journal of Clinical Psychology.

Fang is a project investigator of Ministry of Education's philosophy and social science research key projects, the National Natural Science Foundation of China, foundation works of the Ministry of