Regardless of your personal experience with COVID, you've been impacted by it. Learn more during this Workshop Wednesday event.
COVID-19 changed how people access healthcare, how people receive healthcare, and how healthcare professionals deliver care. Regardless of your professional role during COVID-19 or your personal feelings about COVID, the pandemic has been a collective trauma in our history and the residue on health professionals is real. While trauma is often experienced individually, a collective experience has both protective and risk elements which will be articulated in this presentation. Placing your personal experience over the past couple of years in a larger perspective can facilitate a deeper understanding of both our own and others’ reactions, as well as discover effective strategies to heal and even grow from the events of the past couple of years.
1. Understand the experience of trauma, vicarious trauma, and secondary
stress as it relates to being a healthcare provider during the pandemic
2. Apply the principles of trauma exposure to understand the personal impact
on one’s mind, emotions, behaviors, and the body
3. Learn and practice self-regulation techniques to mitigate activation in the body.
Christine Runyan, PhD, ABPP
Christine Runyan is a clinical health psychologist, the Co-Founder of Tend Health, and
Professor in the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health at the University
of Massachusetts Medical School. After starting her career as a psychologist in the US Air
Force, she focused her research, clinical service, and teaching on behavioral science in
family medicine as well as promoting models of integrated primary care. Dr. Runyan is also
a mindfulness teacher at the University of Massachusetts Center for Mindfulness. At the
height of the pandemic, recognizing the undeniable need for expert mental health services
for healthcare professionals, she launched Tend Health. Tend Health provides specialized,
private, and accessible mental health care and education to healthcare professionals and
consultation to healthcare organizations willing to invest in their most precious resources.
