In early February, Weiwen Zeng received a call from a colleague in Hong Kong. Now a doctoral student at the Steve Hicks School of Social Work, Zeng was a clinical social worker in Hong Kong before coming to the Forty Acres.
February was the height of the COVID-19 pandemic in Wuhan. Through an online network, Zeng’s colleague had been providing remote clinical supervision to social workers and mental health professionals working on the ground in Wuhan with families and individuals affected by the virus. She said that the network (Novel Coronavirus Pneumonia Relief Network) needed more supervisors and asked Zeng to join.
“I was assigned a team of about ten social workers, and did online group supervision with them over WeChat. I also did live supervision, where I joined a counseling session and guided the counselor on how to better help the client,” Zeng explained.
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