Mount Sinai's Center for Stress, Resilience and Personal Growth as a model for responding to the impact of COVID-19 on health care workers

Jonathan DePierro; Craig L Katz; Deborah Marin; Adriana Feder; Laura Bevilacqua; Vansh Sharma; Alicia Hurtado; Jonathan Ripp; Sabina Lim; Dennis Charney

doi:10.1016/j.psychres.2020.113426

Mount Sinai's Center for Stress, Resilience and Personal Growth as a model for responding to the impact of COVID-19 on health care workers

Psychiatry Res. 2020 Nov:293:113426. doi: 10.1016/j.psychres.2020.113426. Epub 2020 Aug 23.

Authors

Affiliations

¹ Department of Psychiatry, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, United States.
² Department of Psychiatry, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, United States; Department of Medical Education, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, United States; Department of Systems Design and Global Health, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, United States.
³ Department of Psychiatry, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, United States; Office of Well-Being and Resilience, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, United States.
⁴ Department of Medical Education, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, United States; Office of Well-Being and Resilience, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, United States.
⁵ Department of Psychiatry, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, United States; Department of Pharmacology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, United States; Department of Neuroscience, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, United States.

Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic is anticipated to have a prolonged adverse mental health impact on health care workers (HCWs). The supportive services implemented by the Mount Sinai Hospital System in New York for its workers culminated in the founding of the Mount Sinai Center for Stress, Resilience, and Personal Growth (CSRPG). CSRPG is an innovative mental health and resilience-building service that includes strong community engagement, self- and clinician-administered screening, peer co-led resilience training workshops, and care matching. The long-term sustainability of similar programs across the United States will require federal funding.

Keywords: Health care workers; Post-traumatic stress; Resilience.

MeSH terms

Betacoronavirus*
COVID-19
Coronavirus Infections / epidemiology
Coronavirus Infections / psychology*
Health Personnel / psychology*
Humans
Mental Health
New York City / epidemiology
Occupational Stress / psychology*
Occupational Stress / therapy
Pandemics
Pneumonia, Viral / epidemiology
Pneumonia, Viral / psychology*
Resilience, Psychological*
SARS-CoV-2
Stress, Psychological / psychology
Stress, Psychological / therapy