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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...
Organizational Trauma-Informed Practice in Emergency Services: What Fire Departments, Police Agencies, and EMS Systems Can Do Summary Individual clinical care, however skillfully delivered, cannot...
Summary Of all the organizational interventions available for improving first responder psychological health, peer support programs occupy a uniquely powerful position. They leverage the most potent...
Understanding Resilience in the First Responder Context Summary Resilience training for first responders has become one of the most widely promoted and most inconsistently implemented components of...
Substance use among first responders occupies a particularly fraught clinical and cultural space. It is common enough to be normalized within many emergency service organizations, serious enough to...
Moral injury has emerged as one of the most clinically significant and least adequately addressed consequences of first responder occupational trauma. Distinct from fear-based post-traumatic stress...
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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 name it. Before the ambulance, or the dog, or the night the fire alarm...
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 everywhere and is often described as the gold standard. And EMDR, which sounds...
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 in the hospital for two nights, which is nothing compared to what other...