Resources
Healthcare Professional Wellbeing Podcasts
Podcast: Our Psychologists Off the Clock episode (Part 1) on Healthcare Professional Wellbeing (featuring Debbie, Abbie, Kerry, and Dr. Bernard Chang)
Podcast: Our Psychologists Off the Clock episode (Part 2) on Healthcare Professional Wellbeing (featuring Debbie, Abbie, Kerry, and Dr. Bernard Chang)
Podcast: Psychologists Off the Clock episode on Helping the Helpers with Dr. Susan David
Coping with COVID Stress
Self-care advice for health-care providers during COVID-19 (American Psychological Association)
Staying Sane and Current on COVID-19— Advice and resources, by specialty, for those caring for patients (MedPage Today)
App: COVID Coach - to support self-care and overall mental health during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic (VA National Center for PTSD)
Resources In Times Of Coronavirus: Anxiety, Panic, Healthy Routines, Connection & Compassion (Insight Timer)
Article on Pandemic-Related Stress with Cognitive-Behavioral Strategies (Journal of Contemporary Psychotherapy)
On Provider Stress, Burnout, & Medical Culture
Six-Minute Video: Provider Burnout and Resilience (featuring our own Dr. Abbie Beacham)
Article: Physicians Aren’t “Burning Out.” They are Suffering From Moral Injury (Talbot & Dean)
Article: Covid-19 is pushing doctors to the brink. Medicine needs to recognize they’re human and need help. (Dr. Esther Choo)
Article: Healing the Professional Culture of Medicine (Shanafelt et al.)
Collection: Physician Burnout: The Root of the Problem and the Path to Solutions (NEJM Catalyst)
Burnout and Well-Being Modules (AMA Ed Hub)
Action Collaborative on Clinician Well-Being and Resilience (National Academy of Medicine)
Trauma, Grief, and Moral Injury
Provider PTSD Toolkit - Includes information on burnout, compassion fatigue, secondary traumatic stress, and vicarious traumatization. (VA National Center for PTSD, available to all)
Trauma Workbook: Finding Life Beyond Trauma: Using Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to Heal from Post-Traumatic Stress and Trauma-Related Problems (Follette & Pistorello)
Trauma Workbook: The Posttraumatic Growth Workbook: Coming Through Trauma Wiser, Stronger, and More Resilient (Tedeschi & Bret Moore)
Posttraumatic Growth Article: THRIVE acronym: Taking stock, Harvesting hope, Re-authoring, Identifying change, Valuing change, Expressing change in action (Stephen Joseph)
Podcast: Psychologists Off the Clock on Bearing Unbearable Loss: A Conversation about Grief with Dr. Joanne Cacciatore
Journal Article on Responding to Moral Injury: A contextual behavioral approach for responding to moral dilemmas in the age of COVID-19 (Borges, et al.)
Podcast: Psychologists Off the Clock on Moral Injury with Drs. Lauren Borges and Jacob Farnsworth
Moral Injury Workbook: The Moral Injury Workbook: ACT Skills for Moving Beyond Shame, Anger, and Trauma to Reclaim Your Values (Evans, Walser, et al.)
PDF Handout on Coping with Medical Moral Injury: Support for Staff Impacted by Medically-Related Moral Injury (Borges and Farnsworth)
Self-Care, Self-Compassion, and Finding Meaning
Online Training: Self-Compassion Training for Healthcare Communities (Dr. Christopher Germer)
Quick Practice: Self-Compassion Break (Dr. Kristin Neff)
Book: How to Be Nice To Yourself: The Everyday Guide to Self-Compassion (Dr. Laura Silberstein-Tirch)
Book: Self-Compassion: The Proven Power of Being Kind to Yourself (Dr. Kristin Neff)
Article: How Journaling (Expressive Writing) Can Help You in Hard Times (Greater Good Magazine)
Book: The Self-Care Prescription (Dr. Robyn Gobin)
Podcast: Psychologists Off the Clock on The Self-Care Prescription with Dr. Robyn Gobin
Podcast: Psychologists Off the Clock on Mindful Self-Compassion with Dr. Christopher Germer
Podcast: Psychologists Off the Clock on Building a Meaningful, Value- Based Life with Dr. Jenna LeJeune