"Making Sure We Are All Okay": Healthcare Workers' Strategies for Emotional Connectedness During the COVID-19 Pandemic.
Healthcare workers have been on the front lines throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, treating affected patients and navigating overwhelmed healthcare systems. Emotional connection has been associated with resilient outcomes following collective trauma. This qualitative study examined how healthcare wor...
| Published in: | Clinical Social Work Journal Vol. 49; no. 4; pp. 445 - 456 |
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Dec2021
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