{"id":1421,"date":"2020-07-17T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-17T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thehealthworkforcehub.org\/?p=1421"},"modified":"2020-07-17T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-07-17T04:00:00","slug":"self-care-for-essential-workers-on-the-frontlines-of-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hwcollab.org\/resources\/self-care-for-essential-workers-on-the-frontlines-of-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Self-Care for Essential Workers on the Frontlines of COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mentalhealthfirstaid.org\/2020\/06\/essential-self-care-for-essential-workers-on-the-frontlines-of-covid-19\/?mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiTkdKaE9HUm1NR001TmpVdyIsInQiOiJsS2k2Z2pqWGhRbFpwVmQ4SHRtVHBLSlhNSnNaWjBjdnNBTFJ5amFqOGlcL2tuOUNzUE1TVXM0R0tZbnR0Nlh0ckIwaFFmRnlIYXNFUzhWeW9FUmZGeHRxZmN0TWJzV2pmZno1SkFURkJWNmphUzl1Y01WMmpIK2JvYmNER09sS20ifQ%3D%3D\" target=\"_blank\">Mental Health First Aid<\/a> teaches that trauma affects people differently, and a mass traumatic event, such as a pandemic, can have lasting effects. Trauma can be direct (your own experience) or vicarious (something you\u2019ve witnessed others experience). COVID-19 checks all those boxes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There are ways to protect yourself from the mental and emotional impact of COVID-19 trauma. Here are a few tips from the MHFA Curriculum and National Council for Behavioral Health member Jefferson Center for Mental Health (Wheat Ridge, Colorado):<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Give yourself credit.<\/li><li>Go back to basics: Eat, sleep, move.<\/li><li>Tackle stressors one at a time.<\/li><li>Ask for help.<\/li><li>Be kind to yourself.<\/li><\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are ways to protect yourself from the mental and emotional impact of COVID-19 trauma. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,37,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-covid-19","category-covid-19-the-workforce","category-health-and-wellness"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hwcollab.org\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hwcollab.org\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hwcollab.org\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hwcollab.org\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hwcollab.org\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hwcollab.org\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1421\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hwcollab.org\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hwcollab.org\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hwcollab.org\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}