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The COVID-19 pandemic has brought a world of unanticipated changes. While society endures social distancing and isolation, fears of illness, and uncertainty, healthcare workers endure the strains of scarce resources, proximity to infected patients, concerns about bringing infection home to family, and rapidly changing healthcare policies and procedures. Such stressors can lead to insomnia, anxiety, and depression.
A psychiatrist from the Center for the Study of Traumatic Stress in Bethesda, Maryland, offers insightful, evidence-based “psychological first aid” principles — team leadership and personal leadership approaches gleaned from prior outbreaks and mass trauma — that leaders and individuals can immediately adopt to support personnel an…