Promoting resilience in the acute phase of the COVID-19 pandemic: Psychological interventions for intensive care unit (ICU) clinicians and family members.

Barbara Lissoni, Silvia Del Negro, Paolo Brioschi, Giampaolo Casella, Isabella Fontana, C. Bruni, Giulia Lamiani

2020Psychological Trauma Theory Research Practice and Policy51 citationsDOI

Abstract

This contribution draws from the experience of intensive care unit psychologists at 2 frontline hospitals in Milan, Italy, during the acute phase of the COVID-19 pandemic. In this contribution, we describe the main psychological needs observed in clinicians and in the families of COVID-19 patients and illustrate some psychological interventions implemented to respond to these needs. Containing emotions and promoting resilience were the aims of our interventions. In the future, psychological interventions should focus on the elaboration of traumatic experiences and losses. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved).

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