Mark Goulston and Diana Hendel
Why Cope When You Can Heal?
How Healthcare Heroes of COVID-19 Can Recover from PTSD
Harper Horizon, 2020
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Diana Hendel and Mark Goulston offer help to frontline healthcare workers suffering PTSD in the midst of COVID-19.
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Healthcare workers risk their lives by exposing themselves to COVID-19, and the stress of their jobs renders them susceptible to PTSD, argue Diana Hendel and Mark Goulston. They say a cultural lack of trauma awareness, combined with “warlike” work conditions, prevents these brave workers from healing. In response, the authors offer a guidebook for healthcare workers starting their healing journeys, and for those leading during this crisis.
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About the Authors
Psychiatrist and executive coach Dr. Mark Goulston also wrote PTSD for Dummies. Former CEO of Long Beach Memorial Medical Center and Miller Children’s and Women’s Hospital Dr. Diana Hendel also wrote Responsible: A Memoir.
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