During the outbreak of COVID-19

it has a huge impact on the public′s psychology

leading to psychological and behavioral stress responses.In response to stress events

appropriate measures should be taken to avoid psychological crisis and enhance psychological immunity.On the basis of combing the existing theoretical and empirical research with clinical protection methods

this article proposes a PASS model of psychological protection

which provides some theoreticalthinking for individual psychological protection and the social psychological counseling mechanism during a major epidemic outbreak.