{"id":43718,"date":"2022-04-21T09:11:28","date_gmt":"2022-04-21T00:11:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/apr\/21\/covid-forces-china-to-face-mental-health-crisis-a-long-time-in-the-making"},"modified":"2022-04-21T09:11:28","modified_gmt":"2022-04-21T00:11:28","slug":"covid-forces-china-to-face-mental-health-crisis-a-long-time-in-the-making","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=43718","title":{"rendered":"Covid forces China to face mental health crisis a long time in the making"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Strains of lockdown have seen demand for counselling services rise, exposing a lack of mental health support that long pre-dates the pandemic<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Since the Covid lockdown in Shanghai began, Hu Bojun has received numerous inquiries about her and her hospital\u2019s counselling services. This month, the US-educated clinical psychologist began facilitating lockdown support groups \u2013 in English and Chinese \u2013 to clients from \u201call walks of life\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEven people from different socio-economic sectors are now attending [counselling] together \u2026 My old clients have been coming back, and there are a lot more new clients as well,\u201d she says, adding that a lot more Chinese people have begun talking to her about their mental stress and loneliness in a time of extreme uncertainty.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/apr\/21\/covid-forces-china-to-face-mental-health-crisis-a-long-time-in-the-making\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Strains of lockdown have seen demand for counselling services rise, exposing a lack of mental health support that long pre-dates the pandemicSee all our coronavirus coverageSince the Covid lockdown in Shanghai began, Hu Bojun has received numerous inqu&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3020,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,50,1066,744],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-coronavirus","category-mental-health"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3020"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43718"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43718\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43719,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43718\/revisions\/43719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}