TY - JOUR
T1 - Even Superheroes Need Rest
T2 - A Guide to Facilitating Recovery from Work for Health-care Workers during COVID-19 and beyond
AU - Hefner, Jennifer L.
AU - Nembhard, Ingrid M.
AU - Fleuren, Bram P.I.
AU - Stephenson, Amber L.
AU - Sullivan, Erin E.
AU - Raj, Minakshi
AU - Tietschert, Maike V.
AU - Sriharan, Abi
AU - Lai, Alden Y.
AU - DePuccio, Matthew J.
AU - Thomas, Samuel C.
AU - McAlearney, Ann Scheck
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
Copyright © 2022 Jennifer L. Hefner and Ingrid M. Nembhard. Published under exclusive licence by Emerald Publishing Limited.
PY - 2021/12/6
Y1 - 2021/12/6
N2 - The COVID-19 pandemic burdens health-care workers (HCWs) worldwide. Amid high-stress conditions and unprecedented needs for crisis management, organizations face the grand challenge of supporting the mental health and well-being of their HCWs. The current literature on mental health and well-being primarily focuses on improving personal resilience among HCWs. However, this puts the responsibility for coping with COVID-19-related stress almost fully on the individual. This chapter discusses an important alternative framing of this issue - how health-care organizations (HCOs) can facilitate recovery from work processes (i.e., returning to a baseline level by engaging in nonwork activities after work) for their workers. Based on a narrative review of the occupational health psychology literature, we provide practical strategies for supporting the four key recovery experiences of detachment, control, mastery, and relaxation, as well as present general recommendations about how to promote recovery. These strategies can help HCOs facing the grand challenge of sustaining worker well-being and functioning during the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as during future pandemics and for workers facing high work pressure in general.
AB - The COVID-19 pandemic burdens health-care workers (HCWs) worldwide. Amid high-stress conditions and unprecedented needs for crisis management, organizations face the grand challenge of supporting the mental health and well-being of their HCWs. The current literature on mental health and well-being primarily focuses on improving personal resilience among HCWs. However, this puts the responsibility for coping with COVID-19-related stress almost fully on the individual. This chapter discusses an important alternative framing of this issue - how health-care organizations (HCOs) can facilitate recovery from work processes (i.e., returning to a baseline level by engaging in nonwork activities after work) for their workers. Based on a narrative review of the occupational health psychology literature, we provide practical strategies for supporting the four key recovery experiences of detachment, control, mastery, and relaxation, as well as present general recommendations about how to promote recovery. These strategies can help HCOs facing the grand challenge of sustaining worker well-being and functioning during the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as during future pandemics and for workers facing high work pressure in general.
KW - COVID-19 pandemic
KW - Recovery from work
KW - health-care workers
KW - occupational health psychology
KW - personal resilience
KW - recovery experiences
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U2 - 10.1108/S1474-823120210000020010
DO - 10.1108/S1474-823120210000020010
M3 - Review article
C2 - 34779188
AN - SCOPUS:85121960815
VL - 20
JO - Advances in Health Care Management
JF - Advances in Health Care Management
SN - 1474-8231
ER -