Database of Health Workforce Innovations

Title

Treating front-line workers: A step-by-step guide

Brief Description of Challenge

The COVID-19 pandemic has led to unprecedented stress and trauma for front-line health-care workers. We prepared this document to provide guidance to psychologists in this rapidly changing landscape.

Brief Description of Innovation

Treating front-line workers: A step-by-step guide can be used for evaluating health-care workers for mental health concerns during the COVID-19 pandemic. This resource/link includes step-by-step assessment, evaluation, and treatment protocol for psychologists and mental health workers to use to treat front-line healthcare workers. This resource includes links to external docs for each step of the guide, as well as additional assessment questions.

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Mental health services

Worker

Community Health Workers
Mental Health Workers
Military Health Workers
Nurse Practitioners*
Nurse Specialists*
Nurses - Licensed Practical
Nurses - Registered
Physicians - Emergency
Physicians - Intensive Care
Public Health Workers
Social Workers

Task/Skill

Training / Retraining

Brief Description of Setting

This evidence-based guidance can help psychologists conduct a diagnostic “intake” evaluation with a front-line health-care professional during the coronavirus pandemic.

Setting - Organization

Setting - Geography

Urban/Suburban
Rural
Remote

Facilitators

Compiling previously used resources of evidence-based guidance and diagnostic forms for intake and assessment

Barriers

The COVID-19 pandemic has led to unprecedented stress and trauma for front-line health-care workers. We prepared this document to provide guidance to psychologists in this rapidly changing landscape. The information in this article does not constitute and

Impact / Evaluation

Link

https://www.apaservices.org/practice/news/front-line-workers-covid-19

Contact

Kevin, D. Arnold, PhD, ABPP, and Jared L. Skillings, PhD, ABPP

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Organization

American Psychological Association

Phone Number

1 614-459-4490

Country

United States

Expert Assessment – Impact

Medium

Assessed Risk - Workers

Low

Assessed Risk - System

Low

Assessed Risk – Patients

Low

Expert Assessment – Confidence

Language

Type

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