We Are With You

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We Are With You

• Prof. Cecilia L.W. Chan
• Director, Centre on Behavioral Health
• 02.04.2003

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Psychosocial Impacts of Coronavirus Pneumonia
(CVP)

• General public perception of CVP
• Unpredictable
• Over-estimate the severity of the risk
• Interpersonal infection
• Uncontrollable

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Intrapersonal level

• Denial and fear of diseases and death
• Severe sense of insecurity, anxiety, fear and
  loss of control
• Guilt, self-blame and worries of the patients for
  infecting family members and friends

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Intrapersonal level

• Being alert to the community and environment
• Undue self-defense, mistrust among people
• Negative emotional projection, anxiety towards
  the infection of virus
• Ambiguous towards participation in community or
  social activities

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Virus is blocked by masks,Smiles, trust,
kindness are blocked too
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Social aloofness and estrangement happens
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Shall we stop for a while (10 days), slow down
from our busy life?
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SARS

• Sacrifice
• Appreciation
• Reflection
• Support

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Sacrifice

• Show empathy
• Willing to sacrifice for the sake of others

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Appreciation

• Appreciation of life
• Express gratitude and love towards family members
  
• Appreciate others' efforts
• (e.g. kindness from government and hospitals)

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Reflection

• Reflection on meaning of life and life- styles
• Reflection on interpersonal relationship

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Support

• Construct social support network
• Actively care and support others, while willing
  to accept others' care and support

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The Power of
Love
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Residents of Amoy Garden being isolated

• Psychological Impacts
• Loneliness
• Estrangement
• Fear
• Sense of helplessness
• Loss of control

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Residents of Amoy Garden staying at campsites

• Doing more exercises
• - Make good use of campsite facilities
• Always be happy
• - Keep a happy mood
• - Enjoy and appreciate days
• with family members
• - Share with neighbors

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For the community
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• Express care and support in a
• more creative way
• Dont let life go on in a
• boring way!

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• Stay calm and rational in
• response to different kinds of news.
• Dont over-react!

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• Care and pay attention to those
• who are diseased, emotionally
• distressed and at high-risk.
• Dont overlook them in
• the heat of SARS!

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• Participate in community and
• social activities
• Dont get panicked!

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Take a deep breath
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Meditate
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Love care
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Facial expressions are masked, but love, hope,
acceptance and forgiveness still go on
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• The secret of overcoming negativity is to
  understand that what you behold in the world
  reflects back to you what you are in yourself.
• Work at self-transformation.
• Stop thinking that the world owes it to you to
  grant your every wish!
• - J.
  Donald Walters