Traumatic events can have a rippling effect on individuals, emergency and disaster responders, and the communities exposed to them (whether it is directly or indirectly; Raphael, 1986), thereby prompting the need to organize some form of disaster mental health response. In fact, North and Pfefferbaum's (2013) literature review on mental health services and interventions associated with community disasters noted that mental health should be integrated as part of a comprehensive emergency management response strategy with a focus on identifying mental health needs, triaging and referral to appropriate services, and providing appropriate mental health interventions. Embedded within this response strategy is the need to also address the impact that traumatic events will have on the disaster mental health responders who are deployed. The empathetic interactive nature of the profession with trauma survivors can result in indirect negative stress reactions such as compassion fatigue and burnout (Cieslak et al.