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.
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AIT ire over Taichung public pork briefing
LACK OF RESPECT? AIT spokeswoman Amanda Mansour said US exports to Taiwan and other trade partners ‘are safe’ and meet the US’ high, evidence-based standards
By Lee Hsin-fang and Jake Chung / Staff reporter, with staff writer
An abrupt deviation by the Taichung City Government from arrangements made with the American Institute in Taiwan (AIT) demonstrated a lack of respect and could result in global mistrust of Taiwan, Executive Yuan Secretary-General Li Meng-yen (李孟諺) said yesterday.
The Taichung City Government on Wednesday allegedly did not confer with AIT Director Brent Christensen before turning a closed-door meeting into a public briefing especially as it included a severe critique of US pork imports.