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I recently attended the white-coat ceremony for new clinical psychology graduate students at a local institution of higher learning. As I reflected on their accomplishments, I wondered if mental health programs across the country honored their students this way. In these unprecedented times, people are diagnosed with mental health challenges at an alarming rate. Frontline care providers are few and far between (Hill et al., 2022; Wu et al., 2021), and how many are encouraged to assess their own mental status before attending to others? Their mental health is crucial to the long-term effectiveness of international healthcare (Acker, 1999). We must be proactive in adequately training the next wave of mental health providers and emphasizing their important role in the viability of our communities.
As a community, we must continue to address frontline workers' mental and physical health. Anxiety, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), depression,...