Objective: To explore the relationship among traumatic experiences in childhood, alexithymia, and interpersonal distress of college students.
Methods: Using the convenience sampling method, 466 college students were surveyed online by the Childhood Trauma Questionnaire-28 Short Form, the Toronto Alexithymia Scale-20, and the Interpersonal Comprehensive Diagnostic Scale. SPSS 26.0 and AMOS 24.0 were used to analyze the data and test the mediation effect.
Results: There was no statistically significant difference in gender between childhood traumatic experiences, alexithymia, and interpersonal distress of college students. College students who were not an only child have higher scores in childhood trauma experiences and alexithymia than only children, and the differences were statistically significant (p<; 0.001 and p=0.023). The scores of traumatic experiences in childhood, alexithymia, and interpersonal distress of individuals with disharmony in family were higher than those with a harmonious family, and the differences were statistically significant (p<; 0.001, p=0.021 and p=0.001). Traumatic experiences in childhood were positively correlated with alexithymia (r=0.254, p<; 0.001); traumatic experiences in childhood were positively correlated with interpersonal distress (r=0.268, p<; 0.001); alexithymia was positively correlated with interpersonal distress (r=0.461, p<; 0.001). Alexithymia partially mediated the relationship between childhood traumatic experiences and interpersonal distress. The indirect effect value was 0.212, accounting for 43.62% of the total effect value.
Conclusion: Early traumatic experiences may lead to alexithymia and increase the likelihood of future interpersonal distress.

Objective: To understand the first-time online Balint group participants' opinions and experiences with regards to online work mode so as to provide a reference for improving and popularizing online Balint group work.
Methods: The self-compiled questionnaire for pre- and post-online Balint group work was sent to first-time participants through WeChat, and 101 valid questionnaires were submitted voluntarily and anonymously before and after the group work.
Results: Of all the online Balint group work participants, 88 cases (87.1%) were women and 81 cases (80.2%) were from Shanghai district, and they had a certain understanding of the work of the Balint group. There was no significant difference in the feelings of 5 experiences of group activities and 8 evaluation indexes of group process between the 29 group members and 72 observers (p>; 0.05). What participants worried about the most after the online group work was easy disturbance by surrounding things during the participation process; unsafe online environment and being recorded or videotaped ranked second followed by limitations of emotional and non-verbal expression.
Conclusions: The online Balint group work was recognized by the participants as an extension of the on-site, face to face group work during the pandemic and also as a long-term work form in the future, making it a useful supplement to the traditional Balint group work mode. Confidentiality and safety protocol were especially emphasized when promoting online Balint group work.

Objective: To explore the correlation patterns between depression and internet gaming disorder symptoms of lower-grade primary school students during the COVID-19 lockdown period, and to provide a target of psychological intervention for depression symptoms associated with internet gaming disorder.
Methods: A total of 667 lower-grade primary school students from Baoding city were enrolled by cluster sampling in April 2022 and were assessed with Children's Depression Inventory and Internet Gaming Disorder Scale via the Wenjuanxing online survey tool. The descriptive statistical analysis and Mann-Whitney U test were conducted by SPSS. R software was used to build the network model, evaluate edges, and analyze bridge centrality.
Results: In the lower-grade primary school students, the average of the total CDI score is 6.7 (4.3) and the average of the total IGDS score is 13.6 (6.1). The total score of depression and internet gaming disorder of boys are significantly higher than that of girls. Different CDI factor scores are positively correlated with IGDS item scores, but different correlation patterns are illustrated. There is a good accuracy of network edge weights. The stability of the bridge expected influence is ideal (correlation stability coefficient = 0.517), and the factor of anhedonia has the highest bridge expected influence (bridge expected influence=0.240).
Conclusions: Anhedonia factor is more closely associated with the internet gaming disorder community. When considering the intervention of different factors of depression to reduce the occurrence of internet gaming disorder symptoms, the anhedonic factor may play a more extensive and effective role.

Objective: To explore the relationship between emotional regulation difficulty and sleep problems of college students during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak, and the mediating role of anxiety in it.
Methods: From February 1 to 7, 2020, a total of 1 109 college students were surveyed by questionnaires, including Difficulties in Emotional Regulation Scale (DERS), Self-Rating Anxiety Scale (SAS) and DSM-5 Self-Rating Sleep Problems Scale, via the internet.
Results: (1) Difficulty in emotional regulation was positively related with sleep problem in college students (β=0.457, p<; 0.001); (2) the effect of emotional regulation difficulty on sleep problem in college students was fully mediated by anxiety level (β_indirect=0.404,p<; 0.001; β_direct=0.053,p=0.130).
Conclusions: Difficulty in emotion regulation, anxiety, and sleep problem among college students during the COVID-19 outbreak were positively correlated, while anxiety played a fully mediating role between difficulty in emotion regulation and sleep difficulty.

Objectives: To investigate the public mood during Spring Festival in the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic and analyze the factors that affect anxiety and depression.
Methods: In February 2021 and February 2022, questionnaires were collected through the “questionnaire network” platform during Spring Festival. Generalized Anxiety Disorder 7-item (GAD-7) and Patient Health Questionnaire 9-item (PHQ-9) were used to evaluate anxiety and depression of the general public.
Results: The anxiety group (GAD-7≥; 10) accounted for 14.1% of the poluation in 2021 and 10.6% in 2022; the depression group (PHQ-9≥; 10) accounted for 16.3% in 2021 and 14.8% in 2022. Economic income is the influencing factor of public anxiety and depression.
Conclusions: The proportions of anxiety and depression of the general population during 2021 and 2022 Spring Festival were relatively high. Promoting economic development is conducive to public emotional health.

Most positive emotions of mankind arise from achievement, award or accomplishing certain goals, while love is experienced when caring for others. How is love generated? What is the meaning of love in the evolution history? How is love related to the meaning in life in modern society? Based on the evolution theory of the brain, this article sets forth the emotion operation of the trinity brain: fear, being a basic primitive emotion, originated from reptile brains, and the emergence of love might have been promoted in the evolution of the brain. The brain's limbic system, as the neural basis for love, allows individuals to feel the inner state of others and subsequently to respond, generating limbic resonance. A further interpretation of love is made abstractly in neocortex. This operating mode and the role of love in it could partly shed light on the “hollow syndrome” that has been bothering college students. The core of “hollow syndrome” is lack of meaning, while the neocortex interprets the meaning. When the limbic system lacks the experience of love, the process of interpretation may not work, thus leading to an empty sense. The relationship of reptile brains, the limbic system and neocortexes is expounded from their roles played in love, thus providing new explanations for affective disorder, new insights of interventions, and references for future research.

Isolation of infected infants, children, and their caregivers in the prevention and treatment of COVID-19 has been a concern of all sectors of the society. In some countries and regions, children with the infection are separated from their caregivers according to the principle of classification. Although this measure can block transmission of the virus between children and their caregivers to a certain extent, the psychological and physiological effects of isolation measures on them need to be considered comprehensively. This paper discusses the possible effects of separation on children and their caregivers based on the attachment theory, investigations, follow-up studies, and biological experimental evidences.

Bulimia nervosa (BN) is a common and hard-to-treat disease that has often comorbidity with other psychiatric disorders, which may further enhance the complexity of the disease, and comprehensive nursing care is needed for its treatment. In this article, we introduce a comprehensive nursing intervention that is centred with cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) in combination of safety in psychiatric nursing, medication nursing care, nutrition and feeding management, and health education in the treatment of a case of bulimia nervosa comorbid with bipolar disorder. We summarize the overall experiences from the comprehensive nursing intervention in the hope of providing information for the clinical nursing care of patients with this type of disease.

Life education among colleges and universities in China officially started in the 1980s, but discrepancy that lies between knowledge and implementation still remains as an effectiveness issue. A reflection on the current life education practice carried out in colleges and universities focuses on criticizing the anti-life tendencies of modern education such as instrumentalization, technologization and excessive rationalization, and its importance is especially highlighted in the period of the COVID-19 pandemic. Developing life education based on the theories and methods of mental health education could demonstrate the emphasis of characteristics that the former has in comprehensibility, practicality, experientiality, and individualization, which is conducive to broadening the path to put course education into practice and enhancing the practicality of life education in colleges and universities in the long run.

Professor Schweitzer took part in the first and second phases of Chinese-German Psychotherapy Continuous Training Program as a German instructor. He was closely involved in the Chinese-German cooperation of the training and research over the span of 30 years and had made an important contribution to the development of Systemic Family Therapy in China. This article presents an overview of the 34 years of development of Systemic Family Therapy in China after its introduction into China by German experts in 1988 and of the footprint of the German experts, represented by Professor Schweitzer, in the Chinese-German cooperation in promoting the development of psychotherapy in China.