Bloc Lucas, de Araújo Juliana Lima, Leite João Marcos, Barreto Sarah Rebeca, Carneiro Karla, Melo Anna Karynne, Boris Georges, Moreira Virginia
Postgraduate Program in Psychology, University of Fortaleza (UNIFOR), Fortaleza, Brazil.
Laboratório de Psicopatologia e Clínica Humanista-Fenomenológica (APHETO), Fortaleza, Brazil.
Front Psychiatry. 2022 Jun 3;13:772698. doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2022.772698. eCollection 2022.
The pandemic has affected people's mental health and university students are considered one of the most vulnerable groups, encouraging the development of psychological interventions that can minimize the suffering and illness of this public. Among the possibilities of intervention, virtual clinical listening groups were created which, during the period of social isolation, had the purpose of opening up a listening space for university students suffering from emotional distress. The focus of the group meetings was how university students were experiencing the pandemic, as well as the consequences of this experience. In this article, we discuss virtual clinical listening groups as a form of psychological intervention in the mental health care of university students during the COVID-19 pandemic at a university in northeastern Brazil. This is a qualitative study that began with 274 university students and 5 psychologists who facilitated the listening groups. We used as instruments the registration forms, the participation records of the virtual clinical listening groups and the field diaries written by the facilitators after each meeting. We described in the results the collected data and, from the field diaries, the themes that emerged in the various meetings were listed and analyzed in dialogue with the literature. At the end of the psychological screening process, 117 students participated in the 17 organized groups, with an average of 8 university students per group. Among the main motivations for participating in virtual clinical listening groups, we highlight: the desire to share experiences, a search for control of anxiety, depression and stress, care for mental health, a willingness to promote listening to psychological support for themselves and for others, and self-knowledge. We discuss the nuances in the process of forming the listening groups and the characteristics of the participants, as well as a central element of the group process, which is the establishment of bonds and mutual help among the participants. Feeling vulnerable and the fear of contamination is an element of suffering and, above all, of stress experienced by university students. The group presented itself as an alternative of mutual care in the pandemic context.
疫情影响了人们的心理健康，大学生被认为是最脆弱的群体之一，这促使了心理干预措施的发展，以尽量减少这一群体的痛苦和疾病。在干预方式中，创建了虚拟临床倾听小组，在社会隔离期间，其目的是为遭受情绪困扰的大学生开辟一个倾听空间。小组会议的重点是大学生如何体验疫情以及这种体验的后果。在本文中，我们讨论了虚拟临床倾听小组作为巴西东北部一所大学在新冠疫情期间对大学生心理健康护理的一种心理干预形式。这是一项定性研究，最初有274名大学生和5名负责主持倾听小组的心理学家参与。我们使用的工具包括登记表、虚拟临床倾听小组的参与记录以及主持人在每次会议后撰写的实地日记。我们在结果中描述了收集到的数据，并从实地日记中列出了在各种会议中出现的主题，并与文献进行对话分析。在心理筛查过程结束时，117名学生参加了17个组织的小组，每个小组平均有8名大学生。在参与虚拟临床倾听小组的主要动机中，我们强调：分享经历的愿望、寻求控制焦虑、抑郁和压力、关心心理健康、愿意促进对自己和他人的心理支持倾听以及自我认知。我们讨论了倾听小组形成过程中的细微差别以及参与者的特征，还有小组过程的一个核心要素，即参与者之间建立联系和互助。感到脆弱和对感染的恐惧是大学生痛苦的一个因素，尤其是压力的一个因素。该小组在疫情背景下呈现为一种相互关爱的选择。
