Managing COVID-19-related psychological distress in health workers. Field experience in Northern Italy

Among other stress-management techniques (e.g., debriefing and defusing), EMDR was considered by the psychological staff as appropriately adaptable to an ongoing stressful situation, whose features were not common for all exposed individuals, with the need for selfidentified individualized therapeutic targets. In particular, the EMDR intervention was applied through the Integrative Group Treatment Protocol (EMDR-IGTP)10 for health-care workers, that is, a specific variant of the broad EMDR approach aimed at rescuers and medical/ nursing staff in emergency/urgent contexts. [Excerpt]

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L. Torricelli
M. Poletti
A. Raballo

Torricelli, L., Poletti, M., & Raballo, A. (2021). Managing COVID-19-related psychological distress in health workers. Field experience in Northern Italy. Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences, 75, 23–31. doi:10.1111/pcn.13165