Scheele Marina, Appel Sandra, Rausch Isabelle, Schecklmann Martin, Klein Jakob, Staudinger Susanne, Schmidt Roger, Kreuzer Peter M, Langguth Berthold
Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany.
Study Center for Evangelical Youth Work Josefstal, Josefstal, Germany.
Front Public Health. 2025 Jun 25;13:1589608. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2025.1589608. eCollection 2025.
Psychological first aid programs aim to train lay people to help others who are experiencing a mental health crisis or developing mental health problems. The current article introduces the new German psychological first aid training program HSN. The acronym HSN stands for "Helfen in Seelischer Not" (helping in mental distress) but also for the action chain "hear, speak, network." The HSN program differs from other well-examined mental health first aid programs by (1) focusing primarily on emotions instead of disorders, (2) using a blended approach, combining face-to-face and online elements right from the start of the project and (3) a low-threshold approach with a course duration of two hours. Here we specify the HSN concept and report first results from a sample of 150 students. The participating students completed a self-report questionnaire before and after the course regarding their "confidence to help." The program demonstrated good feasibility without any relevant side effects. On a descriptive level we observed an improvement of the averaged values of all questionnaire items after the course. These positive initial results merit the further development of HSN as a low-threshold psychological first aid program.
心理急救项目旨在培训非专业人员，以帮助那些正在经历心理健康危机或出现心理健康问题的人。本文介绍了新的德国心理急救培训项目HSN。首字母缩写HSN代表“Helfen in Seelischer Not”（在精神困扰中提供帮助），同时也代表行动链“倾听、交谈、建立联系”。HSN项目与其他经过充分检验的心理健康急救项目的不同之处在于：（1）主要关注情绪而非疾病；（2）采用混合式方法，从项目一开始就将面对面和在线元素结合起来；（3）采用低门槛方法，课程时长为两小时。在此，我们详细阐述HSN概念，并报告来自150名学生样本的初步结果。参与的学生在课程前后完成了一份关于他们“帮助他人的信心”的自我报告问卷。该项目显示出良好的可行性，且没有任何相关副作用。在描述性层面上，我们观察到课程结束后所有问卷项目的平均值都有所提高。这些积极的初步结果值得将HSN进一步发展成为一个低门槛的心理急救项目。
