People in Melbourne’s hotel quarantine were under attack from three psychological threats during their stay, a psychologist says.
Rob Gordon, who is an expert in disasters and trauma including the 1983 Ash Wednesday bushfires, told the COVID-19 Hotel Quarantine Inquiry on Friday about potential psychosocial stressors and how to reduce them.
“It also deprives people of the social structures that would ordinarily help them deal with that crisis.” “If the neighbour who says hello, the workmate who asks for advice and the barista at the coffee shop are all pleasant, that conveys to the person a sense of being a good person whom others appreciate.
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