Creating solace and hope during COVID-19: An innovative Internet-based social work intervention

Abstract

During megacity lockdown, a team of social work practitioners and researchers in Beijing developed a rapid, innovative, Internet-based intervention that provided social-emotional support for participating families through indoor micro-gardening. As COVID-19 continues to restrict in-person interactions and traditional social activities, this type of online social-emotional support and community building should become a major social work method for crisis intervention and service provision.

Keywords

COVID-19 innovation Internet-based intervention support group Beijing

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