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Covid-19

Mental Health and Psychosocial Considerations During COVID-19 Outbreak | World Health Organization
- Information handout download archived copy
Supporting children and young people with worries about COVID-19 | Emerging Minds (University of Reading, University of Oxford)
- Advice for parents, carers and people that work with children and young people download archived copy
Talking To Children About Coronavirus | British Psychological Society
- Information handout download archived copy
Advice for Sustaining Staff Wellbeing in Critical Care During and Beyond Covid-19 | Intensive Care Society
- “It is okay not to be okay”. A fantastic resource for those who will be working to support front-line healthcare staff link
Sustaining The Well-Being Of Healthcare Personnel During Coronavirus And Other Infectious Disease Outbreaks | Center For The Study Of Traumatic Stress
- Includes strategies for sustaining healthcare personnel well-being download archived copy
Managing Healthcare Workers’ Stress Associated with the COVID-19 Virus Outbreak | National Center For PTSD
- Details institutional support and self-care strategies download archived copy
Living with worry and anxiety amidst global uncertainty | Psychology Tools
- Practical help and guidance link
FACE COVID | Russ Harris
- Practical steps for responding effectively to the Corona crisis, using the principles of acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT). link
Doing What Matters In Times Of Stress | World Health Organisation / Russ Harris
- An ACT-informed Illustrated Guide is a stress management guide for coping with adversity. link
Responding to COVID-19 | mindfulnessclinic.ie
- Guide to using mindfulness for emotional regulation link
COVID Marginal Gains Handbook | Rob Archer, Alex Jamieson link
Talking to children about illness (and COVID-19) | British Psychological Society
- Much of the information that children hear about Covid-19 is intended for adults. Because children don’t understand risk in the same way that adults do many children are unsure of how worried they should be but many are very worried indeed – about themselves, their parents, grandparents, their pets, and their friends. We’ve written this short leaflet to give health professionals, educational professionals, parents and early years providers an informed understanding of children’s understanding at different developmental stages. link

Support The Workers | UCL / NHS link
- Support the workers is an international group of experts in disaster response, crisis psychology, high pressure decision-making and human performance and health under conditions of extreme stress. They have developed an excellent evidence-based training and support curriculum for staff providing psychosocial support to frontline workers. Helpful resources they have shared include:
  - Extreme stressors
  - Moral injury
  - Performance debriefing (note this is not traumatic debriefing, which is not recommended)
  - Team dynamics and non-technical skills
COVID Trauma Response Working Group | UCL / NHS link
- A group of psychological trauma specialists in the UK have formed a working group to help coordinate trauma-informed responses to the COVID outbreak. Policy documents include:
Intensive Care Society: Wellbeing Resource Library link
- In collaboration with Dr Julie Highfield the Intensive Care Society have developed a well-being resource pack designed to support psychological wellbeing in health workers. Helpful posters they have shared include:
  - Advice for sustaining staff wellbeing in critical care during and beyond COVID-19
  - Self-care during COVID-19
  - How to approach self-care
Coping With Coronavirus link
- Fantastic collection of resources developed by trainee clinical psychologists at UCL. The also have a Facebook pagewith frequent updates.
OxCADAT COVID-19 Resources | Oxford Centre for Anxiety Disorders and Trauma (OxCADAT)
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- Guidance in how to remotely deliver the NICE recommended cognitive therapies for PTSD, Social Anxiety Disorder and Panic Disorder that were developed by the OxCADAT team. These guides only address how to remotely deliver the treatments and assume that therapists are already familiar with all of the main features of the treatment.
Maintaining health and wellbeing during the COVID-19 pandemic | Institute Of Psychiatry, Psychology, & Neuroscience
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- Videos from a fantastic series of talks by the IoPPN. Talks include:
  - DO I or don’t I have COVID-19? The anxiety trap
  - ACTing with uncertainty: Emotions and COVID-19
  - Health behaviour for COVID-19: The good, the bad, and the ugly
Psychosocial responses to COVID-19 | NHS Education for Scotland
- Helpful considerations for coordinating a response to COVID-19 in professional environments link
Rehab 4 Addiction – the objective of these resources is to help people who are struggling with mental health and alcohol abuse during the pandemic
- A guide to alcohol addiction treatment during COVID-19 link
- Identifying alcohol withdrawal symptoms link
Just Listening link
- “Emotional distress around COVID-19 is not a ‘mental illness’: It is an understandable and common human experience.”
The nature of compassion, fear, safe relating, and world change | Compassionate Wellbeing
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- A series of talks by Professor Paul Gilbert discussing how compassion can help us during this time of heightened anxiety and uncertainty
- Tips to share with children to help them cope with the new normal | WeNeedToTalkAboutChildrensMentalHealth ls_content_block id=”4989″] link
- For the generation shaped by coronavirus, life may never return to ‘normal’ | Prof Steven Taylor link
- Coronavirus: how to stop the anxiety spreading out of control | Dr Jo Daniels link
- Worry and anxiety about coronavirus (aimed at parent supporting themselves & children | Dr Lucy Russell link
- Til coronavirus do us apart | Gavin Sharpe link
- Emotional Health Toolkit | Facbook Group link