Why Cope When You Can Heal?

How Healthcare Heroes of COVID-19 Can Recover from PTSD

Mark Goulston, Diana Hendel

• Publisher: Harper Horizon
• Year: 2020
• ISBN:
  9780785244769
• Topic: Personal Development
• Subtopic: Mental Health & Wellbeing

Why Cope When You Can Heal? is an essential resource for doctors, nurses, paramedics, and other healthcare professionals—and the leaders who support them—as they navigate the traumatic stress they have experienced and continue to face.

COVID-19 has traumatized the world—and no group has been more impacted than frontline healthcare workers. They've worked without adequate personal protective equipment (PPE), witnessed mass death, and been forced to make choices that haunt them. Many have fallen ill, while others have worried endlessly about their own health and that of their loved ones.

Additionally, all of this is happening in the context of a divided nation, a struggling industry, and a "just get over it" culture that exacerbates the problems healthcare workers face, while minimizing their suffering.These factors have created the perfect storm for widespread stress, depression, anxiety, and hopelessness—and, increasingly, posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD).

Medical doctor and psychiatrist MarkGoulstonsharespractical, evidence-based techniques and treatments for managing traumatic stressthat will fill you with hope and inspiration.

In Why Cope When You CanHeal?, you will discover:

• real-world accounts and experiences from frontlineworkers;
• an overview of treatment options; and
• exercises, tools, and tips that you can use today.

This guide will help you—and those you love and support in the COVID-19 battle—begin the process of healing from the inside out and reconnect with the joys and rewards of career and life.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• Foreword by Quint Studer
• Why Read This Book?
• Chapter 1: A Perfect Storm for Trauma
• Chapter 2: The Frontline Experience: A Look at the Tragedies and Traumas Surrounding the Pandemic
• Chapter 3: The Aftershocks are Coming
• Chapter 4: The Path to PTSD
• Chapter 5: The Road Back from Trauma
• Chapter 6: Help Yourself: What You Can do to Start Healing Today
• Chapter 7: A Call to Action: Leading Through the Pandemic—and Beyond
• Acknowledgments
• Notes
• About the Authors