Name: The mental health benefits of storytelling for health care workers
Uploaded: 2020-05-05T19:47:19Z
Duration: 9 min 34 s
Description: Health care workers are under more stress than ever before. How can they protect their mental health while handling new and complex pressures? TED Fellow Laurel Braitman shows how writing and sharing personal stories helps physicians, nurses, medical students and other health professionals connect more meaningfully with themselves and others -- and make their emotional well-being a priority.

Health care workers are under more stress than ever before. How can they protect their mental health while handling new and complex pressures? TED Fellow Laurel Braitman shows how writing and sharing personal stories helps physicians, nurses, medical students and other health professionals connect more meaningfully with themselves and others -- and make their emotional well-being a priority.

Laurel Braitman: The mental health benefits of storytelling for health care workers

The mental health benefits of storytelling for health care workers

Author, professor, secular chaplain-in-training

Nearly 30% of American medical students are depressed, a concern echoed by higher suicide rates among practicing physicians.

Storytelling workshops for healthcare workers foster vulnerability, improving well-being by 36-51%, akin to a blockbuster drug.

Communicating with vulnerability and listening with compassion is deemed the best medicine for ensuring healer's health.