Emotional First Aid - Critical Incident Stress Management

Emotional First Aid - Critical Incident Stress Management.

Interventions following a critical incident: developing a critical incident stress management team.

This article describes the development and implementation of a stress management model for assisting hospital staff after critical incidents using an adaptation of Mitchell's model (J. Mitchell, 1983). A survey was conducted following the first major incident using M. Horowitz, N. Wilner, and W. Alvarez's (1979) Impact of Event Scale 10 days after and again 6 weeks following the incident to mea...

Critical incident stress management (CISM): the assaultive psychiatric patient.

Critical Incident Stress Management (CISM; Everly & Mitchell, 1999) is an integrated, multicomponent crisis intervention approach that is helpful in mitigating and preventing the potentially adverse consequences associated with critical incidents. The CISM model may serve a valuable heuristic purpose in the planning and development of CISM approaches in a wide variety of organizations and indus...

Early identification and management of critical incident stress.

Everyone experiences stress. That stress may be related to work (internal), community (external), or family; it may be cumulative or related to a particular critical incident. The cost related to treating acute stress is staggering, both to individuals and to organizations. Critical care nurses are well educated in the physiological responses to the stress of acute illness. Recognizing the emot...

Critical incident stress debriefings for crisis management in post-traumatic stress disorders.

Critical incident stress debriefings (CISDs) are a form of crisis management for rescuers such as police officers, fire-fighters and others involved in rescue efforts during natural disasters. This article describes a qualitative evaluation study of one police department's CISD implementation. Participant observation and semi-structured interviews were conducted with ten police officers involve...