Virtual Short-term Psychodynamic Psychotherapy for Health Care Providers During COVID-19 Outbreak in Iran

At early stages of COVID-19 pandemic in Iran, it became clear that due to first reports of significant mortality rate of patients (1), the whole society and especially health care system workers were facing an unprecedented situation in modern medicine era caused by a contagion. With regard to medical job settings, along with physical burdens, conditions made by new environmental threats during the pandemic can increase the perceived and felt stress by health care workers at a rate and intensity possibly higher than for other job settings (2).Common examples are fear of contracting the disease or death (For the individual or close relatives), feeling of loneliness in quarantine and discomfort arisen from uncertainty of adopting appropriate treatment and caring procedures (in case of responsibility for COVID-19 patients).