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Coronavirus: UBCO mental health program moves online
A professor of psychology at UBC Okanagan is shifting a telephone-based mental health program to an online platform.The program was created to offer free mental health services to front-line and essential workers during the coronavirus pandemic.Each caller would share their COVID-19 story with a registered psychologist and according to Dr. Lesley Lutes, over two-thirds of callers have been classified as ‘experiencing moderate levels of distress.’“We’ve received calls ranging from general anxiety to acute homicide and domestic abuse issues, suicide risks and front-line workers who took the virus home to family members,” said Lutes.“What concerns me most is the high number of callers in moderate distress.