
Sol-Ji Lee
Tongmyong University, South KoreaPresentation Title:
An autoethnography on the development and counseling experience of non-face-to-face mental health mobile service platform of mental health social welfare expert
Abstract
This study is a study that collects and analyzes data through an autoethnography as one of method of qualitative research, through which researcher have experienced firsthand in the process of developmenting and counseling there a new concept professional mental health mobile service platform as a mental health social welfare expert. the results of this study are as follows. First, there are people in Korea, who are directly exposed to mental health issues and need to receive professional medical services, but there are also quite a few members of the public who have a desire for general mental health services, although the level of therapeutic intervention is not required. Second, considering the characteristics of modern society and especially in the pandemic situation of infectious diseases such as COVID-19, more and more people are preferring various mental health service platforms using mobile devices. Third, all generations complain of mental health issues such as family problems, stress, interpersonal relationship, and occupations, and other mental health problems such as self-harm and suicide accidents are frequently mentioned in connection with mental disorders such as depression, anxiety disorder, addiction, and post-trauma disorder. Fourth, youngths were exposed to various mental health-related issues, and above all, they were complaining of serious mental health problems such as self-harm and suicide accidents. Fifth, in delivering professional mental health services, mental health experts with the ability also to provide professional services onlone through mobile devices are needed as well offline. Finally, based on the results of this study, policy and practical suggestions related to the provision of mental health services in the future, and directions for follow-up studies were suggested.
Biography
I am a currently professor Sol-Ji Lee who teachs social welfare clinical and practice at Tongmyeong University Social Welfare Department in Busan, since 2020, and develops, operates and study Solcounsel, an online and offline two-way-based mental health counseling platform since 2020 too. I worked as mental health social worker at a psychiatric hospital in Korea from 2004 to 2019, and as a mental health social worker specializing in addiction at an addiction treatment hospital fron 2019 to 2020. I received my phD from the graduate school of social work at Busan national university in 2014, and since then, my reseach has focused on various issues related to mental health, including mental heath, addiction and mobile mental health service platform.