COVID-19-Related Stress in Healthcare and Behavioral Health Professionals

The COVID-19 pandemic has created trying times for healthcare workers—behavioral health clinicians, dentists, rehab professionals, physicians, mid-level providers, nurses, hospital and clinic workers, public health personnel, pharmacists, emergency services personnel, and others. Both essential and non-essential workers may be dealing with overwhelming stress and frustration due to the unique, unprecedented pressures of the pandemic such as increased personal risk, limited resources, new workplace protocols, and/or the challenges of functioning outside of best practices. Many workers may be experiencing fear, anxiety, fatigue, sleep problems, overwhelming frustration, and other difficult mental health symptoms.

In this 2-hour continuing education webinar, Martha Teater will help mental health clinicians confront and mitigate their own COVID-19 stress by providing practical tools for staying well despite the circumstances. Martha will help participants gain insight into their own stress points. She will lead participants through the process of creating a stress-reduction plan for work and home to prevent or mitigate professional burnout.

Martha will also cover treatment strategies and tools clinicians can use in therapy with workers impacted by COVID-19 stress. She will discuss the causes and signs of COVID-19 stress as well as methods for developing tools to stay emotionally healthy in the face of pandemic stress. 

This 2-hour introductory level web conference is designed to help clinicians:

1. Describe causes of COVID-19 stress.
2. List symptoms of stress related to the COVID-19 pandemic.
3. Develop ideas to enhance one's wellness at work and prevent professional burnout. 
4. Create a plan to maintain one's personal well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic. 
5. Apply mindfulness in practical ways to increase relaxation and relieve stress.

Statement of program material's accuracy, utility, and risks: This program presents clinical information that combines established psychotherapeutic methods such as cognitive approaches and mindfulness tools. It is consistent with the ethics code of the American Psychological Association. This program discusses strategies for applying the methods taught in a clinically responsible manner, although the presenter may not know how to apply all principles discussed to every situation or person. A body of research surveyed in the program suggests that the methods are effective and safe. As always, however, the misapplication of psychotherapeutic interventions with mentally vulnerable populations can lead to harmful outcomes.

Declaration of conflicts of interest and commercial support: Martha Teater conducts trainings, provides clinical services, and has written books related to the content of this program.

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Continuing Education (CE) Information

2 CE contact hours will be provided by GoodTherapy for attending this web conference in its entirety. To receive CE credit hours for an archived recording, you will need to complete a survey as well as a 15-question exam, verifying that you listened to or watched the event in its entirety. Archived CE events are generally considered "homestudy" by licensing boards.

GoodTherapy is an NBCC-Approved Continuing Education Provider (ACEPTM) and may offer NBCC-approved clock hours for events that meet NBCC requirements.

GoodTherapy.org is also an Approved Education Provider by NAADAC, The Association for Addiction Professionals (provider #135463). Of the eight counselor skill groups ascribed to by NAADAC, this course is classified within counseling services.

GoodTherapy.org, provider #1352, is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved as ACE providers. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. GoodTherapy.org maintains responsibility for this course. ACE provider approval period: 3/30/2022 – 3/30/2025. Social workers completing this course receive 2 continuing education credits.

GoodTherapy is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. GoodTherapy maintains responsibility for this program and its content. 

GoodTherapy, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW-0395. GoodTherapy, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed marriage and family therapists #MFT-0022 and for licensed mental health counselors #MHC-0031.

To receive CE credit hours for an archived event, you will need to complete a survey as well as a 12 or 15-question exam, verifying that you listened to or watched the event in its entirety. Archived CE events generally are considered "homestudy" by licensing boards.

Registration Information

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