Articles of Interest: 03/19/12

‘Organizational Recovery After An Incident’ U. S. Office of Personnel Management

POSITIVE IMPORTANT TO READ & REVIEW 2010

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Support informal debriefing: The formal debriefing doesn't end the recovery process. Provide opportunities for employees to talk informally with one another when they feel a need to discuss the experience. Formal crisis intervention processes for victims of critical incidents, such as workplace violence, have been used and recommended by mental health professionals for years. One such process, Critical Incident Stress Management, has been pioneered by Dr. Jeffrey Mitchell of the University of Maryland at Baltimore County.

CONCLUSION:As mentioned earlier, both critical incident stress debriefing and defusing are among the two most utilized processes under the CISM umbrella. Neither model should be employed by anyone other than trained mental health professionals and other trained CISM team personnel. It should also be emphasized that the CISM process is but one crisis intervention model among others available to Federal agencies.

 

 

The Effects of Critical Incident Stress

POSITIVE IMPORTANT TO READ & REVIEW 2/3/12

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“The Effect of Critical Incident Stress on Fire Fighters” A Research Paper by R. Van Buskirk,