COVID-19 Resources for Healthcare Workers
Here is a list of all our resources for healthcare workers dealing with COVID-19 in their daily lives.
- October Flyer: About Reach for Resilience
- November Newsletter: Parenting in a Pandemic
- December Newsletter: Tackling Holiday Stress
- Bathroom Break handout
- January Newsletter: Coping with Grief
- February Newsletter: Suicide
- March Newsletter: Chronic Stress
- Well-Being Check-In: A Conversation Guide for Supervisors *New*
- April Newsletter: Alcohol and Other Drug Use
- May Newsletter: Dimensions of Wellness
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Reach for Resilience: Addressing Healthcare Worker Mental Health
Jon Ulven, PhD, LP and Stephanie Schafer MEd, LPCC, NCC
This lecture discussed the research on the effects of COVID-19 on healthcare worker mental health, building resiliency within healthcare organizations, interventions to aid healthcare workers’s emotional health, and information on the Reach for Resilience program.
Professional Help Resources
Connect with Others Dealing with COVID-19 in the F-M Area
NAMI Connection Recovery Support Group is a free, peer-led support group for any adult who has experienced symptoms of a mental health condition. You will gain insight from hearing the challenges and successes of others, and the groups are led by trained leaders who’ve been there.
Anxiety Resources
- Managing Healthcare Workers’ Stress Associated with the COVID-19 Virus Outbreak
- 6 Simple Steps for Self-Compassion During COVID-19
- Nourishing Your Mind and Body: Manage Stress for Better Health
- Staying Resilient During COVID-19
- Self Help – Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Anxiety self-help guide
- 4 Self-Care Tips for How to Deal with Anxiety
- Self Help for Anxiety
Anxiety Resources for Parents
InsightTimer – Apple Download | Google Download
Headspace – Free for Healthcare Workers
Calm – Apple Download | Google Download
Covid Coach – Apple Download | Google Download
Videos
Depression Resources
Virtual Hope Box – Apple Download | Google Download
I Know Someone in Crisis Resources
Columbia Suicide Severity Rating Scale Apple Download | Google Download
The Jason Foundation: A Friend Asks Apple Download | Google Download
Burnout Resources
- 9 Tell-tale Signs of Employee Burnout
- Clinician Wellness: Building Resiliency in the Primary Care Home Team (Webinar: 60min)
- This site also has handouts and exercises for resilience and burnout prevention.
Provider Resilience – Apple Download | Google Download
Insomnia Resources
- Sleep Tools & Tips
- Healthy Sleep Tips
- Sleep Hygiene
- Relaxation Exercises for Falling Asleep
- Shift Work – Treatment
- Shift Work Sleep Tips
- Therapy for Sleep Disorders
- Self-Care Options for Insomnia
- Insomnia treatment: Cognitive behavioral therapy instead of sleeping pills
- Tools and Tricks to Calm Your Anxiety and (Finally) Get Some Sleep
InsightTimer – Apple Download | Google Download
Headspace – Free for Healthcare Workers
Calm – Apple Download | Google Download
Veterans CBT-i Coach – Apple Download | Google Download
Guided Sleep Meditation Spotify Podcast – Spotify
Substance Use Resources
- Online Group AA Meetings
- Virtual NA Meetings Online & by Phone
- Rethinking Drinking
- Alcohol poses different challenges during the COVID-19 pandemic
- Recovery Talk
- Do You Know The Signs Of Addiction?
- Alcohol and Substance Use
- Learn More F5 Project
- Substance use during the Pandemic
- Addiction, Substance use and Recovery during the COVID-19 Pandemic
- How to Recognize a Substance Use Disorder
12 Steps AA App – Apple Download | Google Download
I Am Sober – Apple Download | Google Download
SoberTool – Apple Download | Google Download
Recovery Box – Apple Download
Someone Died in My Care
- Anticipatory Grief
- Collective Vulnerability during COVID-19 (3 min)
- Loss and Grief During the Coronavirus Pandemic
- Grief and Loss in the Workplace During COVID-19
- A guide to supporting others through grief
- Bereavement & Grief
- 5 Coping Skills to Work through Grief
- Coping with Ambiguous Loss
- “Ambiguous loss is an uncertain loss without clear boundaries or resolution.”
Unlocking Us: Grief & Finding Meaning – Listen here
Grief Out Loud Podcast – The Dougy Center
Terrible, Thanks for Asking Podcast – Apple Download | Google Download
General Self-Help Resources
COVID Coach – Apple Download | Google Download
San Francisco Dept of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences – Psychiatry.ucsf.edu
Government of Western Australia’s Centre for Clinical Interventions has put together self-guided worksheets and informational items for a variety of mental health conditions – View Resources
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