Objective: To probe into the relationship between college student’ perceived social support and empathy, and examine the mediating effect of narcissism and its gender difference.
Methods: In 2019, the random cluster sampling method was adopted, and class was used as a unit in a college in the Tibet Autonomous Region. A total of 537 college students were investigated with the perceived social support scale, interpersonal reactivity index, and narcissistic personality inventory, respectively.
Results: The scores of perceived social support, empathy, and narcissism were 4.9 (1.3), 3.3 (0.4) and 2.8 (0.7). The college students’ perceived social support was positively related to narcissism (r=0.114, p<0.05) and was positively related to empathy (r=0.249, p<0.01). Narcissism partially mediated the relationship between perceived social support and empathy. Gender had a moderating effect on the mediating process of perceived social support and narcissism (β=0.302, p<0.01), that the mediating effect manifested as narcissism was merely significant among male students (β=0.333, p<0.01), but was not significant among female students (β=0.034, p>0.05).
Conclusions: Improving narcissism is conducive to the enhancement of the effect of perceived social support on the empathy ability, and that effect is significant in males solely.

Objective: To investigate the effect of cumulative ecological risk on postpartum depression and the mediating role of insecure attachment.
Methods: From March 2017 to June 2017, 754 postpartum women (age: 32.0±3.4 years) in 3 Beijing maternal and child health hospitals were recruited to complete a set of questionnaires including the basic information questionnaire, the Edinburgh Postpartum Depression Scale, the Childhood Trauma Questionnaire, and the Adult Attachment Experience Questionnaire. Structural equation modeling was used to test the direct effect of cumulative ecological risk on postpartum depression and the mediating effect of insecure attachment.
Results: There were 66.4% of the postpartum women that gave birth for the first time; and the average score of the Edinburgh Postpartum Depression Scale was 7.3 (4.4) and the score of insecure attachment in the childhood of postpartum women was 2.2 (0.8). Maternal age, housing status, subjective and objective economic status, and childhood traumatic experience were associated significantly with postpartum depression. Postpartum women’s average depression level had not met the clinical criteria, and the cumulative ecological risk and insecure attachment both had a significant positive predictive effect on postpartum depression. Cumulative ecological risk could partly predict postpartum depression through postpartum women’s insecure attachment.
Conclusions: Cumulative ecological risk has an important effect on postpartum depression, and this effect may be achieved through the postpartum women’s internal attachment work pattern. Therefore, this study reminds us that from the perspective of intervention, when reducing the ecological risk of maternal postpartum depression, we should consider the cumulative risks and risks in different fields such as family and individual psychology.

Objective: To investigate the clinical efficacy of group body psychotherapy (GBPT) combined with routine medication treatment in the treatment of major depression.
Methods: From July 2017 to June 2019, 60 inpatients with moderate to severe depression in Shanghai Mental Health Center were selected and randomly assigned to the experimental group and control group, with 30 patients in each group. The patients in the control group received routine medication treatment, and the patients in the experimental group received GBPT on top of the basis. All the patients completed the 4-week intervention. The Hamilton Rating Scale for Depression (HAMD-17) score, Hamilton Anxiety Scale (HAMA) score, Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) score, and the short-form McGill Pain Questionnaire (SF-MPQ) score of the patients in these two groups were compared at baseline, 4 weeks, and 8 weeks, respectively.
Results: The results of two-way repeated measures analysis of variance indicated that, compared with the control group, the combined intervention of GBPT could significantly reduce the HAMD-17 score (F=6.97, p<0.001) and improve the PSQI score (F=17.54, p<0.001), and had an interaction with the treatment time (F=12.09 and F=22.79, respectively; p<0.001). Although, compared with the control group, the combined treatment of GBPT for the improvement of somatic pain was not statistically significant (F=3.65, p=0.06), there was an interaction between the group and treatment time (F=11.84, p<0.001), indicating that the combined intervention of GBPT can improve patients’ somatic pain more rapidly.
Conclusions: Compared with the routine treatment, the combined treatment of GBPT with routine treatment could significantly reduce the depressive symptoms in patients and may have better clinical implications.

The professional development of psychological counseling requires a standard and protection of law. As a result of the lack of laws and regulations targeted at the counseling work of colleges and universities, psychological counseling of colleges and universities faces multiple legal dilemmas including the dearth of legal basis for the identity of psychological counselors, the easiness of the occurrence of legal duties for multiple relationships, the legal risks for providing psychological counseling to the students diagnosed with mental illness or mental disorder, and legal risk in the crisis intervention of suicide or self-harm. In view of this, it is essential to further consummate the Mental Health Law of the People’s Republic of China , and to promote the legislation of the Act of Psychologists as soon as possible, to enact specific administrative regulations, and to improve the legal consciousness and professional competencies of the psychological counselors and clinicians working in colleges and universities, promoting the standardized development of psychological counseling in colleges and universities.

The mental health of healthcare workers is of utmost importance for the quality of medical industry. Once mental health problems occur in them, it is often severer than the general population. This article is a descriptive review of the existing literature on the mental health status of healthcare workers. It first explores the common mental health problems of healthcare workers (including emotional problems, sleep and behavioral problems, and job burnout), then analyzes the affected factors and the current status of intervention of healthcare workers’ mental health, and finally, summarizes the deficiencies of the existing research and proposes possible future research directions.

There has been a gradual development of online psychological interventions that use the internet as the medium for the treatment of prolonged grief over the years. Especially in the COVID-19 pandemic, it plays a non-negligible role. After the pandemic subsides, how to effectively treat the bereaved with prolonged grief with psychological intervention will be an important proposition. This paper reviews the literature on online psychological interventions for prolonged grief, summarizes the form, content and effect of the current online psychological interventions, and explores the application of online psychological interventions on the bereaved in the post-COVID-19 era. This review can provide effective information for future online psychological intervention programs and facilitate establishing mature online diagnosis and treatment strategies, making up for the shortage of traditional psychological treatment services for the bereaved families in the context of the pandemic.

Addiction is a complex psychopathological phenomenon. The development of addiction is influenced by different factors, including biological, psychological, and social aspects. This article, through the addictive substance, the theoretical models of addiction motivation, and the characteristics of addicts, reviews the perspective of psychoanalysis on the phenomenon of addiction; tries to get the picture of additive behaviors from the phenomenological standpoint; provides a new perspective for clinical practitioners to understand addictive behaviors; and increases more interdisciplinary discussions so as to provide inspiration for the prevention and research of addiction.

Objective: To investigate the mental state of Xu Wei with the paradigm of pathography, and try to make a diagnosis.
Methods: By collecting and sorting out Xu Wei’s biographical materials such as his poems, letters, and records of friends, the authors identified mental symptoms and carried out psychopathological analysis via multi-aspect references and reasonable speculation. Diagnostic opinions were obtained through discussion.
Results: The characteristics of Xu Wei’s medical history are as follows: Xu Wei suffered from severe insanity, and he committed suicide and homicide when he was in the attack of disease. At least there were 4 explicit disease episodes. During the period of disease episodes, social functioning could return to almost normal, and there was a state of intermittent episodes. He had plenty of visual disorders, that were all illusion or hallucination, lasting for more than 20 years, and the content of which was vivid. He had a long history of alcohol use. He had a sober understanding of his symptoms and the course of the episodes, and made a detailed record of them. Apart from the period of illness, he maintained good artistic creativity and social skills. He continued to produce good work in his later years.
Conclusions: The diagnosis of Xu Wei’s mental disorder is still controversial. Bipolar disorder, personality disorder, schizophrenia, etc., are also needed to be considered. The diagnoses supported by the authors are epilepsy-induced mental disorder and alcohol-related disorders.