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Creative arts therapy: Medics draw, dance and write their way through burnout
We believe that creative art therapy is effective because it allows these health care professionals to be imperfect – freedoms that can be healing in and of themselves.
Doctors and nurses seldom learn in school how to tell a family that their loved one is not going to survive. Yet health care professionals face the immense burden of tragedy, illness and dying in an intensely stressful setting as a routine, ongoing part of their jobs.
Long before the Covid-19 pandemic, research was documenting rampant stress and burnout among health care professionals.