{"id":4376,"date":"2020-02-18T16:51:42","date_gmt":"2020-02-19T00:51:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=4376"},"modified":"2021-02-18T16:53:08","modified_gmt":"2021-02-19T00:53:08","slug":"to-cope-with-anxiety-coronavirus-patients-do-the-safety-dance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/02\/18\/to-cope-with-anxiety-coronavirus-patients-do-the-safety-dance\/","title":{"rendered":"To Cope With Anxiety, Coronavirus Patients Do the Safety Dance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Reviewed by Dr. Tona McGuire, clinical psychologist, co-lead of the DOH Behavioral Health Strike Team, co-founder of the Health Support Team, and instructor in disaster behavioral health.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">With a shortage of Mental Health professionals, other healthcare workers are stepping in to develop creative ways to help patients and themselves manage the stress involved in quarantine in \u201cshelter hospitals\u201d.\u00a0 Mental health providers regularly visit, and have set up chat groups, online forums, radio stations, book clubs, and hotlines for patients and staff.\u00a0 Staff in full PPE and patients also do Tai Chi and Square Dancing to relieve stress, calling it the \u201cSafety Dance\u201d.\u00a0 <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sixthtone.com\/news\/1005199\/to-cope-with-anxiety,-coronavirus-patients-do-the-safety-dance\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Read the full story here.<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reviewed by Dr. Tona McGuire, clinical psychologist, co-lead of the DOH Behavioral Health Strike Team, co-founder of the Health Support Team, and instructor in disaster behavioral health.\u00a0 With a shortage of Mental Health professionals, other healthcare workers are stepping in to develop creative ways to help patients and themselves manage the stress involved in quarantine&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/02\/18\/to-cope-with-anxiety-coronavirus-patients-do-the-safety-dance\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"topic":[18],"class_list":["post-4376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","topic-mental-health-and-personal-impact"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4376"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4377,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4376\/revisions\/4377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4376"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=4376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}