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First responder trauma lives in the body. Years of operational conditioning teach emergency service personnel to suppress emotional and physiological responses to distressing stimuli, but...
Post-traumatic stress disorder in police officers is one of the most extensively studied yet persistently undertreated conditions in occupational mental health. Law enforcement trauma carries a...
Of all the first responder disciplines, paramedicine asks something uniquely intimate of the people who practice it. Paramedics and emergency medical technicians do not arrive at scenes to contain...
Firefighters are among the most publicly celebrated of all first responders, and among the least adequately served by the mental health systems that are supposed to support them. Their occupational...
Emergency dispatchers and telecommunicators are the invisible architects of emergency response. They are the first voice a person in crisis hears, the coordinator who holds an operation together...
Two children come to mind whenever I am asked this question, and they are not the same child. The first was fine, and then something happened, and now is not fine. There is a date. The parents can...
By the time a parent asks me this question, they have usually done a fair amount of reading, and they have arrived at two names. Trauma-focused cognitive behavioral therapy, which turns up...
Parents calling about a single event often apologize somewhere in the first minute. It was just a car accident, and nobody was seriously hurt. It was only a dog bite, and the dog was small. He was...
Your Teenager Refuses to Discuss It. EMDR May Still Work The calls I get about teenagers sound different from the calls I get about young children. With a seven-year-old, a parent wants to know...
EMDR Therapy for Children: A Parent's Guide to How It Actually Works Nearly every parent who calls me about EMDR for their child asks the same question within the first few minutes, though they...
Summary Critical Incident Stress Management has been one of the most widely implemented and most vigorously debated psychological interventions in emergency services for four decades. Nearly every...
Female First Responders: Gender, Identity, and Compounded Trauma Summary Female first responders occupy one of the most psychologically complex positions in contemporary emergency services. They are...
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First responder trauma lives in the body. Years of operational conditioning teach emergency service personnel to suppress emotional and physiological responses to distressing stimuli, but suppression is not resolution. The stress hormones, the muscular bracing, the...
Post-traumatic stress disorder in police officers is one of the most extensively studied yet persistently undertreated conditions in occupational mental health. Law enforcement trauma carries a clinical profile that is genuinely distinct from civilian PTSD and from...
Of all the first responder disciplines, paramedicine asks something uniquely intimate of the people who practice it. Paramedics and emergency medical technicians do not arrive at scenes to contain threats or suppress fires. They kneel beside suffering human beings,...