How to Improve Communication with Your Partner
by Gabriela Nordeman Sumarriva, MA, and Robert M. Gordon, Psy.D.,
Improving communication with your partner can be challenging—especially during times of turmoil, like the post-pandemic transition. These strategies can help you deal with uncertainty together.
How to Build Resilience During the Post-Pandemic Transition
By Robert M. Gordon, PsyD and Jed N. McGiffin, PhD - The pandemic transition phase presents unique psychological challenges. Taking steps to increase flexibility and resilience may help us navigate them.
COVID-19 Overwhelm: Yoga as Self-Care for Abuse Survivors
By Denise Bossarte - Abuse survivors are often triggered during the pandemic. A survivor of childhood sexual abuse shares research-based practices to reduce the overwhelm.
Sustaining Hope in Pediatric Care During COVID-19
By Robert M. Gordon, Psyd, Taylor Groth, MS, and Sara Schapiro, MS - Parenting children with medical conditions during COVID-19 is challenging. Here are tips to sustain hope.
Discover Your Personal Meaning in the COVID-19 Experience
By Maureen O’Reilly-Landry, PhD - The pandemic has resulted in stress, loss, and trauma for so many. Is it possible to find meaning in all of this?
Why Am I So Tired?
By Robert M. Gordon, PsyD, Joanna B. Wolfson, PhD, and Elina Talis, MA - Dealing with the pandemic can be exhausting. Here are strategies to deal with stress and fatigue.
Stress-Management Strategies for Healthcare Workers
By Rita M. Rivera, MS and Denise Carballea, MS - These strategies can help healthcare workers reduce overall stress and burnout.
Fostering Student Resilience During COVID-19
By Rita M. Rivera, MS and Denise Carballea, MS - The COVID-19 pandemic has affected students across the world. These strategies can help educational institutions foster student resilience.
COVID-19 Overwhelm: Self-Care for Abuse Survivors
By Denise Bossarte - Abuse survivors are often triggered during the pandemic. A survivor of childhood sexual abuse shares research-based self-care practices to reduce the overwhelm.
Surviving and Thriving as a Couple in the Pandemic
By Irina Wen - The pandemic has put many intimate relationships to the test. Learn how to protect your relationship from conflict and promote better communication.
Turn Play Into a Way to Understand Children in the Pandemic
By Ellen B. Luborsky, PhD - How can play help a child shed stress and feel understood? This short-but-true story shows how.
How Volunteering to be in a Vaccine Study Gave Me Hope
By Betsy Gard, PhD - We all have a unique opportunity to help stop the spread of COVID by being altruistic, listening to science, and having the courage to take the novel vaccine.
Existential Interventions During the Age of COVID
By Robert Gordon, PsyD - Life-threatening illness can be a catalyst for thinking about life’s meaning. Here are existential strategies to promote hope, growth, and purpose in patients and therapists.
Vicarious Trauma, Mirror Neurons, and COVID-19
By Betsy Gard, PhD - Witnessing others in pain can cause vicarious trauma. What happens when empathy becomes too much? Tips and suggestions for coping and resilience.
What Can I Do if My Family Member Is in the COVID ICU?
By Irina Wen, PhD - Family members of COVID patients in the ICU may feel scared, anxious, and hopeless. These tips can help manage one’s feelings and promote resilience during these difficult times.
Managing Emotional Distress in the Hospital and ICU
By Ethan Lester, PhD - Just the thought of the ICU can cause emotional distress. A clinical psychologist teaches patients, families and medical caregivers how to cope.
Making an Emotional Recovery Together In the COVID-19 ICU
By Ethan Lester, PhD - Hospitalized patients and families are drastically affected by COVID-19. An ICU psychologist discusses what they can do together to promote emotional recovery.
On the COVID-19 Battlefield
By Patricia A. O’Gorman, PhD - Addiction is the epidemic within the pandemic. A substance abuse expert teaches resilient coping in the face of the trauma of COVID-19.
Psychological Impact of COVID-19 on You
By Patricia O’Gorman, PhD - The well-being of hospital, health care, and addiction workers, patients, and families suffers under the pandemic. A psychology task force comes to the rescue.