Mental Health in Health Care and Psychological First Aid with Katie Godfrey, PhD

Working in health care is certainly rewarding, but it can also be challenging mentally and emotionally. That's what makes caring for the caregiver such an important part of how health care organizations support their staff.

In this episode we’re joined by Katie Godfrey, a psychologist and director of ChristianaCare’s Center for Worklife Wellbeing. We dive into the mental stressors health care professionals face and explore a program called Psychological First Aid (PFA), a powerful tool in cultivating empathy and compassion between colleagues.

Discover how the COVID-19 pandemic changed the conversation around the emotional well-being of health care workers, how public perception around that well-being is evolving and how organizations in health care and other industries are responding.

Katie Godfrey, PhD, is director of the Center for WorkLife Wellbeing at ChristianaCare. She leads a team of psychologists and researchers, who develop, deliver, and study programs and initiatives to promote and sustain the wellbeing of health care professionals. She previously managed Care for the Caregiver, which is one of the country’s best utilized healthcare professional peer support programs with over 500 individual and group encounters per year.

Links

• ChristianaCare Center for Worklife Wellbeing
• Simple Stress Continuum Guide
• Stress First Aid: Manuals and Resources for Health Care Workers
• Stress First Aid for Health Care Professionals
• Psychological First Aid Resources (APA)  

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