Abstract—The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted the mental health of Philippine citizens. The authors propose the Integrative Behavioral Health (IBH) model to help facilitate the country’s eventual recovery from a health psychology perspective. Findings were integrated from a faculty consultation from a private university’s psychology department, a literature review, and a survey of students who are learning online. The survey results revealed that living with family members negatively correlated with readiness to learn online, r = -.37, p < .05. Further research is needed. Furthermore, combining themes gathered from the consultation, literature review, and variables used from the survey served as anchor words for the IBH model: 1. Emancipatory Education; 2) Filipino Psychology; 3) Contextualization; 4.) Philippine Mental Health Law; 5). Symptom Science; and 6) Social Determinants of Health (SDH). The constructs were implemented into an online health psychology course. The proposed curriculum design provides for an effective mental health response towards post-pandemic recovery.

 

Index Terms—emancipatory education, Philippine Mental Health Law, symptom science, Filipino psychology, integrative behavioral health psychology, COVID-19

Cite: Ruel R. Billones, Sam Aquino Jr., Rey Jan Pusta, and Marie Joyce Victolero-Tupas, "Integrative Behavioral Health (IBH) Model at the Intersections of the Philippine Mental Health Law, Education, and Policy: For COVID-19 Recovery and Beyond," International Journal of Learning and Teaching, Vol. 7, No. 2, pp. 142-153, June 2021. doi: 10.18178/ijlt.7.2.142-153