ABSTRACT

The COVID-19 pandemic has posed unprecedented challenges to the U.S. mental healthcare system. Immediate action has been required to transform existing social work practice models to ensure uninterrupted delivery of essential mental health services. This paper describes how clinicians in a residential program, who offered an in-person multi-family education workshop, rapidly pivoted in the context of the pandemic to develop and implement an alternative and unique multi-family intervention model – a virtual family town hall. This innovative telehealth practice model serves as an exemplar of best practices amidst the COVID-19 pandemic as it prioritized health and safety, increased accessibility, and allowed clinicians to effectively respond to family members’ heightened informational needs.

摘要

COVID-19大流行给美国精神卫生保健系统带来了前所未有的挑战。需要立即采取行动来改变现有的社会工作实践模式，以确保不间断地提供基本的精神卫生服务。本文描述了一个住院计划中的临床医生如何提供一个面对面的多家庭教育研讨会，如何在大流行的背景下迅速发展以开发和实施另一种独特的多家庭干预模型–虚拟家庭市政厅。这种创新的远程医疗实践模型可作为COVID-19大流行中最佳实践的典范，因为它优先考虑健康和安全，增加了可及性，并使临床医生能够有效应对家庭成员日益增长的信息需求。