The pandemic of COVID-19 has posted great challenges to all aspects of human life, communities and societies. Psychology as a discipline and as a profession all of a sudden found itself facing an unprecedented need to understand, design and deliver effective psychological services to a vast number of people from all walks of life in middle of an extraordinary international crisis. During the early phase of the intense fight against the pandemic, psychological professionals in China mobilized its human as well as technological resources and engaged themselves in new and renovated ways of helping the citizens reduce panic, stress and distress in relation to the outbreak of the pandemic. In a short few months, multiple psychological service forms were built and tested out.

This special issue is proposed to provide readers information about what had been observed and had been done by the psychological community to understand and help during the pandemic, about the processes and operations involved in those service establishments, about outcome research concerning the efficacy of this helping modality, about advantages and challenges to increase accessibility to all people who need help, and about training and supervision challenges involved in ensuring quality of service. The purpose is to share experience as well as lessons learned to our international communities in assisting their effort to provide needed psychological service to our global citizens in the similar circumstance.

Suggested topics include, but are not limited to:

1) The impact of the pandemic on the mental health status of different population group;

2) The experience of establishment of the mental health service during the pandemic;

3) The issues in relate to the service quality during this crisis;

4) The effective of different forms of psychological intervention during the pandemic;

5) The experience that worth to share to help the residents to maintain mental health during the pandemic.