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WELCOME

Acknowledging and Responding to the

Psychological Impact of COVID-19 on

Health Care Providers

Host: Dr. José Pereira, MBChB, CCFP(PC), MSc, FCFP

Presenters:

Dr. Mary Elliott, MD, FRCP(C) Rev. Peter Barnes, D.Min.

The webinar will begin soon (please note your microphone is muted).Please use the Q&A function to submit questions.

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Housekeeping

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• Your microphones are muted.

• Use the Q&A function at the bottom of your screen to submit questions.

Do not use the chat function for questions.

• This session is being recorded and will be emailed to webinar registrants

on Monday.

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Presenters

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Host

Dr. José Pereira MBChB, CFPC(PC), MSc, FCFP

Professor and Director, Division of Palliative Care, Department of

Family Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada

Scientific Officer, Pallium Canada

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Presenters

Panelists

Dr. Mary Elliott, MD, FRCP(C)

Staff Psychiatrist, Princess Margaret

Cancer Centre, Toronto Canada,

Assistant Professor, Department of

Psychiatry, University of Toronto.

Rev. Peter Barnes, D.Min.

Regional Coordinator of

Bereavement Services, Eastern

Health

Pastoral Care, Ethics and

Bereavement Services, Eastern

Health

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Declaration of conflicts

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Pallium Canada• Non-profit

• Partially funded through a contribution by Health Canada.

• Generates funds to support operations and R&D from course registration fees and sales

of the Pallium Palliative Pocketbook

• These webinars are supported by an unconditional education grant from Boehringer-

Ingelheim (Canada) Inc.

Presenters• Dr. José Pereira – Paid by Pallium Canada as Scientific Officer

• Dr. Mary Elliott

• Rev. Dr. Peter Barnes

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Learning objectives

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Upon completing this webinar, you should be able to:

• Consider the benefits of using resiliency framework provider coping during a pandemic to

move from surviving to thriving.

• Understand, adapt and apply elements of team-based delivery of CREATE, a team-

based well-being initiative.

• Consider the adaptation of the bereavement care approach to the grief experienced in

the COVID-19 pandemic.

• To explore personal change to being a healing presence to self and others.

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Rebounding joy

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Towards reconciliation

When someone close to us dies, we are bereaved. Our loss causes us to

grieve. The journey of mourning leads us towards reconciliation (with the

loved one or the loss). We do not recover what we have lost, but we learn to

live with our loss in what is now a new and unfamiliar world.

Used with permission from “The Journey of Mourning,” Written by C. Hodgson and P. Hall. Illustrated by M.L.Maison. 8

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Dual process of grief and pendulation

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The River

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The river of pain crosses our path. It is wide, deep and so frightening that at

times we want to turn around and go back. But we cannot, because

eventually it will wind around to cross our path again in the future. There is

no bridge over this river, we have to go through it.

Used with permission from “The Journey of Mourning,” Written by C. Hodgson and P. Hall. Illustrated by M.L.Maison.

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The need to transform grief pain

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“If you cannot find a way to make our wounds into sacred wounds, we

invariably become negative or bitter—because we will be wounded. All

suffering (and grief) is potentially redemptive, all wounds are potentially

sacred wounds. It depends on what you do with them.”

Pegge Erkeneff, “Transformation Emerges,” Listen: A Seeker ’s Resource for Spiritual Direction, April 2014, Vol. 3: Issue 2, page 1

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Healing presence in grief and bereavement care

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You cannot do healing presence—you become healing presence,

expressing it gently yet firmly in various ways:• Listening, holding, talking, being silent, being still, being in your body, coming home to

yourself, being receptive…

You can deepen your healing presence by:• Slowing down, doing only one thing at a time, reminding yourself regularly to come back

to the present moment (meditation practice and mindfulness)

You can encourage healing presence by being:• Appreciative, forgiving, humble, kind (compassionate)

Miller, EJ and Cutshall, SC. 2001. The art of being a healing presence. A guide for those in caring relationships. Willogreen Publishing.

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Why healing presence in palliative care and bereavement matters

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When one is truly present to another there is:

• An alleviation of loneliness

• An affirmation of one’s authentic self and invitation to wholeness

• Potential for spiritual bonding

• A deeper sense of our common humanity

• A recognition and acknowledgement of the other as person

• An invitation to self-transcendence

• Possibility for greater self reflection & self revelation

• Sharing on a deeper level, spiritual level [Butler]

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Living, dying and renewed: living transformed suffering

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In the last several decades a “new wave” of grief theory has emerged that

acknowledges the ways in which grief changes the griever (including the

dying) permanently, resulting in long-lasting (and potentially positive)

changes in identity, worldview, relationships, and values (Neimeyer, 2001).

“Meaning Reconstruction in Bereavement: Sense and Significance,” by Rachel Hibberd, Death Studies, 37: 670-692, 2013.

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An attitude of healing presence in palliative and end-of-life care and bereavement care

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An attitude of anticipation that you bring to a relationship. The anticipation of

making a difference, of something changing because of the connection,

engagement, and the relationship.

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The Cave

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• The Cave is the place of rebirth, that secret cavity in which one is shut up

in order to be incubated and renewed. C.J.Jung

• Can the support you offer help to transform the Cave for yourself and for

clients?

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Review: transforming the pain of grief, fear and despair

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• Healing presence

• Listening

• Vision or opening space through reflective practice

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Henri Nouwen’s words

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And where I am injured, I touch my own heart, my real identity. I surrender

the illusion that I am perfectly healthy, strong and complete. I acknowledge

my broken self. This enables me to remain vital and more human,

compassionate and gentle. At the sites of my injures lie also my treasures.

That's where I am in touch with my real identity and my vocation. There I

also discover my potential.

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Compassion to self and to others

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“As we learn to have compassion for ourselves, the circle of compassion for

others—what and whom we can work with, and how—becomes wider.” — Pema Chodron, When Things Fall Apart, p.105

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Compassionate communities

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A Compassionate Community is a community of people who feel

empowered to engage with and increase their understanding about the

experiences of those living with a serious illness, caregiving, dying and

grieving and those who are isolated, marginalized or vulnerable.

Compassionate Communities widen the circle of caring and provide much-

needed support to patients and caregivers facing serious illness and death.

https://www.pallium.ca/compassionate-communities/

Toolkits: Startup Toolkit, Workplace Toolkit, Faith Community Toolkit

https://www.pallium.ca/toolkits/

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Suffering

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• Don’t turn away. Keep you gaze on the bandaged place. That’s where the

light enters you. — Rumi, from The Essential Rumi by Coleman Barks (1995).

• When we look directly at the bandaged place without denying or avoiding

it, we become tender toward our human vulnerability. Our attention allows

the light of wisdom and compassion to enter.— Brach (2003),37.

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Grief challenges faced by health care professionals (HCP)

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• The death triggers personal fears or unresolved issues about death and

dying.

• The relationship was particularly close and/or long standing.

• The circumstances of the illness and/or death were medically challenging:

(unexplained, unexpected, difficult to manage).

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Grief challenges faced by health care professionals

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• The client was seen to be suffering.

• The client’s personal circumstances closely resemble those of the HCP

(similar age to self or parent, same profession, from same place, similar

life history).

• The HCP feels guilt about some aspect of the client’s care.

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Suggestions for self care: goals

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Physical: To maintain good health and energy levels

Emotional: To understand feelings and to share personally stressful

experiences

Cognitive: To develop a sense of competence, control and pleasure in

one’s life work

Social: To maintain a personal support system

Spiritual: To sustain a personal philosophy regarding dying, death and

bereavement and monitor ability to be compassionate.

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Strategies to move from surviving to thriving during COVID-19 crisis

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Mary Elliott, MD, FRCP(C)

Staff Psychiatrist, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre

Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry

[email protected]

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Frontline HCP in China significant distress

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n=1257

• Anxiety on GAD: 44.6%

• Depression PHQ9: 50.4%

• Insomnia: 34.0%

• Distress IES: 71.5%

Need to be proactive!

Lai, J., et al., Factors Associated With Mental Health Outcomes Among Health Care Workers Exposed to Coronavirus Disease 2019. JAMA Network Open, 2020

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COVID-19 – It’s a lot!

Individual• Emotions & psychologyo Stress, fear, anger, demoralization, stress response syndromeo Sense of personal vulnerability & risko Uncertaintyo Unknowno Moral distress / moral injuryo Vicarious traumao Loss (known) and griefo Pre-existing levels of burnout and engagemento Mental health concerns

• Social and familyo Divided loyalties, pressures, guilt, fear of contagiono Fundamentals: childcare, finances, foodo Impact of physical distancing on social support

• Adaptation and losso Shift paradigm: culture of care>war metaphorso Work roles, workload, team, work conditions o Redeployment, training demandso Loss of autonomy including re: personal health decisions

System• Communication: Unknowns and Uncertaintyo Body of knowledge growing and changing directives> mistrusto Local experienceo Rapidity of changeo Transparencyo Leadership: socialized, attuned vs mis-attuned• Media reports and international situation-scary, illness and

HCW deaths• Organizations and Union messaging to membership

• Paradigm shift: culture of care >war metaphors;

hierarchical, government emergency orders,

redeployment

• Organizational justiceo Decision making principleso Rational for making decisions (supply over safety)

• Testing

• PPE

• Physical environment and conditions

• Professional standards, best practice during COVID

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Am I going nuts?Stress ingredients: N.U.T.S.Centre for Studies on Human Stress, University of Montreal

Threat

• NOVELTY

• UNPREDICTABILITY

• THREAT to EGO

• SENSE OF CONTROL

Emotions

• Something new you have not experienced

before

• Something you had no way of knowing it

would occur

• Your competence as a person is called into

question

• You feel you have little or not control over the

situation

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STRESS Patterns: Centre for Studies on Human Stress, University of Montreal

Chronic stress patterns

29http://www.humanstress.caUniversity

In a healthy stress response, levels

of stress hormones rise to meet the

demands of the situation and fall once

it is dealt with.Adapting to COVID-19 is a marathon not a sprint!

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Understanding and Addressing Sources of Anxiety Among Health Care Professionals During COVID 2019 Pandemic

N=69HCP: physicians, nurses, APN, allied

• What do hcp most concerned about?• What messages & behaviour do they• want from their leaders?• What tangible sources of support?

Hear meProtect mePrepare meSupport meCare for me

Access PPE, Risk being exposed & take it home, Access to testing, To be cared for if sick, Access to Childcare, Support for fundamentals, Training –competence redeployment, Up-to-date information

30Shanafelt T, Ripp J, Trockel M. JAMA. April 7, 2020.

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Understanding and Addressing Sources of Anxiety Among

Health Care Professionals During COVID 2019 Pandemic

Fundamentals

Leadership

Family Welfare and Safety

Connection &Support

Organizational Justice

Relax and RestoreCoping, Loss, Hope

Mental Health

Moral Distress

Training & Efficacy

Advocacy

Connection

CREATECompassion, Resilience and Team-Building

SupportingTeams@PrincessMargaretElliott &Li, March 2020

Shanafelt T, Ripp J, Trockel M. JAMA. April 7, 2020. 31

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CREATE: enhanced “support me”

• Anticipated needs: proactive

• System/Organization: Individual

Factors: Shift from usual 80:20o Individuals feeling unsafe, danger, fear,

fatigue

• CREATE Supporting Teams approacho Embedded coaching model

o Foster individual resiliency, coping through psychological first aid approach

o Antifragility and opportunity

o Psychological safety

o Advocacy

o Broaden and Build Attachment Security, Responsive Leaders & Cohesion

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CREATE: Compassion, REsilience and TEam-BuildingSupporting Teams@PMCancerCentreMary Elliott and Madeline Li, CREATE Co-Leads& Department of Supportive Care Professionals in Collaboration with Clinical Managers

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Aim: to maintain and foster a healthy workforce throughout & beyond the pandemic

Goal: to prevent stress from becoming distress, recognize distress and triage

Supportive Care Professional Embedded Coaching Model Rational

• Recognize novel stressors particular to pandemic, require immediate response

• Promote sense of feeling safe psychologically and of enhancing psychological safety,

provide psychoeducation

• Team-based, for widespread impact and rapid implementation

• Consultants often have some familiarity with team

• Build previous work, including work done at Princess Margaret Cancer Centre

o CPRt: Compassion, Presence and Resilience Training for Healthcare Providers

o BRITE: Building Resilience within Institutions Together with Employee

Hobfoll, S.E., et al., Five Essential Elements of Immediate and Mid–Term Mass Trauma Intervention: Empirical Evidence. Psychiatry, 2007. 70(4): p. 283 -315.

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CREATE: Compassion, REsilience and TEam-BuildingSupporting Teams@PMCancerCentre

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• Proactive & Preventive Model: move away from reactive model

• Pairs: manager with supportive care/psychosocial professional; coaching/psyched

• Program personalized: tailored to needs of team, context, and stressors

• Pragmatic:

o Psychological First Aid • Promote: safety, calm, efficacy (individual & team), connectedness and hope• Polyvagal theory• Practice resilience: integrate micro moments-pause- breathe, movement, regulation, self-compassion, connection, awe,

joy, gratitude (CPRt, BRITE).• Problem-solving coping: emotion-focused coping and mean-focused coping: tri-partite

o Pre-existing: participate in already existing team huddles, meetings; informal touch-base, formal groups*

• Protective: advocate for welfare of individual and team; restore sense of safety

• Plan: interventions sequenced & responsive according to evolving needs, pandemic phase

• Provide psychoeducation regarding mental health monitoring and facilitate triage individual services

when distress, trouble functioning, significant symptoms (anxiety, depression, PTSD, suicidal,

substance abuse, etc.) or at request of individual team member.

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The capacity to bounce back and

respond to pressure, unpredictability or

adversity in an adaptive and effective

manner, that leads to learning and

positive outcomes.

Princess Margaret Cancer Centre working definition

Important because: not dependent on

stress being removed, responding to

stress

Resilience

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Resilience is a good fit for healthcare

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Healthcare environment:• dynamic, stressful, demanding, rapidly changing, and has disruptive technology.

• requires an approach which is aimed at fostering a nimble and adaptive respond to challenge and

demands

Intrinsic capacity and not dependent on removing stressors:• innate quality, grows out of adversity or challenge, NOT dependent on removing stressors or

challenge

Limitless quality and multidimensional: • can be fostered and cultivated; suitable for a skills development approach incorporating lifestyle,

EI, mindfulness, cognitive behavioral tools

Emerging literature: • association to illness prevention, positive psychology and well-being.

• move away from disease model to one of employee well-being.

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Rosenberg, A., Cultivating Deliberate Resilience during the Coronavirus 2019 Disease. JAMA Pediatrics, April 14, 2020 37

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BRITE™:

Building Resilience within Institutions Together with Employees

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BRITE™ framework individual domains

Optimism: expectation of positive

outcomes; drive, goodwill,

meaning, purpose, authenticity,

integrity, self-efficacy and humor.

Connectedness: capacity to build

and value trusting and supportive

relationships; team participation,

appreciate strengths of self and

others; and recognize common

humanity.

Fundamentals: monitors stress

levels and responds to them

skillfully; eats, takes breaks,

energy management.

Self-Awareness: mindful

presence; able to be in the

present moment and to monitor

experience as it is happening.

Self-Regulation: capacity to manage

strong feelings and impulses; ability

to use awareness to shift from

reactivity to responding skillfully

Perspective: can see and tolerate

multiple points of view, capacity for

empathy and compassion.

Flexibility of thinking, creativity and

ability to reframe situations39

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BRITE™ framework individual domains

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Optimism

Gratitude

Rebounding Joy

Self-Awareness

S.T.O.P.

Mindful Walking

Fundamentals

Mindful Break

Mindful Body Sweep

Self-Regulation

Strong Back-Soft Front

R.A.I.N

Connectedness

Smile

Just Like Me

Perspective

Silver Lining

Self-Compassion Break

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Optimism

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The optimist sees the opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger

in every opportunity. (Winston Churchill)

Optimism ignites resilience providing energy to power the other resilience

factors and facilitates creative, active approaches to coping with challenging

situations.

Acknowledges bad and good outcomes, accepting of limits. Future oriented.

It is related to happiness, positivity and associated with physical and mental

well-being. Also, linked to purpose, meaning, gratitude, and awe.

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Appraisal and Coping: wide variety, broaden

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• Problem-focused: self-care, education, through advocacy

• Emotion-focused : recognize, validate and tolerate

• Meaning-Focused: purpose and meaning

o Maunder and Hunter coping YouTube clip

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Polyvagal Theory

• Trauma informed, able to return to sense of safety

• Social engagement system, natural state of being, desire connection

• Co-regulate, social connection-safe: words, tone, gestures, body

• Optimally functioning, ventral vagal parasympathetic nervous system with balance between calm, flow and activation,

excitement, exploration, curiosity

• Lack of safety shift into survival mode: FFF-defensive, adaptive in the short term but depleting and exhausting if

prolonged or multiple episodes due to sympathetic and stress hormones (adrenaline, cortisol)

• Dorsal vagal system: collapse, dissociation

• Triggered when don’t feel safe: prefrontal cortex offline

o Executive functioning: problem solve, plan, organize, self-monitor, reflect, insight, empathy, working memory, mentalize, reason, logic, time sequence.

• Connection, grounding, mindful awareness, sound/hearing/touch, breath, music, tea, food, sleep

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Window of toleranceAdapted from: Daniel Siegel, 1999 & Linda Graham, 2012

Hyperarousal

Sympathetic Nervous System

Reactive

Fight, Flight, Freeze, Attach Cry for Help

________________________________________________________

Optimal Arousal Zone

Safe-secure

Socially Engage and Alert<>Calm, Cool, Collected

Ventral Vagal/Cortical Functioning (PFC) online

Emotions Tolerated and information integrated (learning, memory)

Empathy, Compassion, Skillful Responses, Able to Self-Monitor

Physiological Baseline of equanimity

_______________________________________________________

Hypoarousal Zone

Submit-Collapse-Numb-Fold-Withdraw-Avoid

Dorsal Vagal

Resource

• mindfulness

• other

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Connection

• Buddy Up / Battle Buddies:

o no one left behind

o monitor for distress

o facilitate/support access to individual help

• Virtual Meetings

• Virtual coffee, exercise, music, cinema

• Behind the mask

• Team

• Groups

• Social media/technology for the good45

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Mindfulness-Based

Interventions:Build

resilience

AwarenessDecreased

reactivity

Self-compassion

Decreased

ruminationDecentre Connection

Well-Being

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Moral Distress

• Moral distress is often described as the psychological disequilibrium associated with knowing

the morally right course of action to take in a given situation but failing to follow through with

that action because of institutional constraints.

• Moral distress may also occur as a result of being forced to act in a manner that contravenes

personal and professional values.

• Mitigating effects: being respected and valued; protocols, debriefs, grief groups.

• Associated with: psychological distress (doubt, stress response, anx)-can be enduring, BO,

Job dissatisfaction, during.

Bell, J and Breslin, J. Healthcare Provider Moral Distess as a Leadeship Challenge. 48

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Version: March 28 2019

Learn and use it often Apply when needed Reflect and shareLearn and use it often Apply when needed Reflect and share

Begin by recalling a recent event or circumstance that triggered strong or difficult emotions.

Recognize that you have been triggered by a situation or event.

Allow your experience to be just as it is. Name the emotion.

Investigate by bringing a sense of curiosity and interest as to how this impacts your body, thoughts and mind.

Nourish yourself with kindness and compassion. Ask yourself:

What do I need to best look after myself in this moment?

Tip: Use in times of feeling anger, humiliation, grief, or anxiety. R.A.I.N. is a tool that can help you feel calm, balanced, and less reactive.

Recover From an Emotional Storm

Adapted from: Michele McDonald and Tara Brach

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• Difficult/Hard feeling

• Soft feeling underneath

• Unmet need behind emotion

• Unmet universal need behind that

Anger disconnection

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Psychological safetyEdmondson, A., et. al. Understanding Psychological Safety in Health Care and Education Organizations: A comparative Perspective. 2016; 13: 65-83.

• Enables change, new learning and reduces defensiveness in context of

environments which are high stakes, complex and involve human

interaction.

• High risk behaviors: Speaking up and asking for help

• Hierarchy

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Broaden and Build Response

• Porges: take away danger doesn’t make feel safe;

• E.g. Leader: “we have to take care of staff feelings” [not just test result]

• Attachment model: infants, safe, protective, supportive, secure base

• Attachment theory applies to leaders of organization

• Responsive, Perceived sensitivity and supportive sensitive leaders and cohesive groups beneficially impact a

person’s attachment patterns and psychological functioning!

• Broaden and build cycle of attachment security. Repeated encounters, there in times of need. Aid adaptation and

change vs. maladaptation.

• Values, valued, competence, good will, beneficence, security, positive regard, reliable: sustains optimism and hope.

• Decrease burnout, increase job satisfaction, increase sense of security

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Mikulincer, M and Shaver, P., Augmenting the Sense of Attachment Security in Group Contexts:

The Effects of a Responsive Leader and a Cohesive Group. International Journal of Group

Psychotherapy, 2017; 67:161-175.

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SummaryCrisis: danger and opportunity

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• Organization, team and individual response and possibility

o Interventions at organization, team and individual (include barrier free triage /referral).

• Challenge fosters resilience

• Post-traumatic growth

• Lessons learned and more importantly take stock of achievements

• Commit to continued implementation of positive transformations

• Continue to build trust, cohesion and common purpose

• Lens of well-being valuable to continue

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30-minute online drop-in mindfulness sessions designed specifically for

Canadian healthcare workers impacted by the increased stress of

Covid-19. www.pause4providers.com

[email protected]

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If you are experiencing distress now or in the future, the following resources can provide help when you need it:

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• Primary healthcare provider

• Employee Assistance Program

• Helpline

• ER

• Provincial associations

• Crisis Services Canada (https://www.crisisservicescanada.ca/en/) 1-833-456-4566 or

text 45645

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Wrap up

• We would appreciate your feedback. You will receive a link to evaluate

the webinar.

• This session is being recorded and will be emailed to webinar registrants

tomorrow or available here: www.pallium.ca/pallium-canadas-covid-19-

response-resources

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References

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