Mental Health of Trauma-Exposed Firefighters and Critical Incident Stress Debriefing

Levels of Death Anxiety, Death Related Depression of Health Personnel Providing Emergency Medical Services and Their Coping Methods

“…Acil durum çalışanlarında görülen travmatik stres ve yaygınlığı konusunda, itfaiye çalışanları, [1][2][3] ruh sağlığı uzmanları, [4,5] polisler, [6][7][8] hekimler [9] ve arama-kurtarma çalışanları ile yapılmış olan çok sayıda araştırma [10][11][12][13][14][15] bulunmaktadır.…”

An investigation of the rescue personality in firefighter recruits.

“…For this reason, other definitions specifically reference atypical events or calls that would have the capacity to overwhelm the ability o f workers to cope (Bounds, 2006), or an event that exposes the worker to personal injury, mission failure, or human error (Harris, Baloglu, & Stacks, 2002). These critical incidents could also be the result o f response to multiple different situations in a short period o f time, events that attract large media attention, or contact with dead or severely injured victims (Harris et al, 2002).…”

“…These critical incidents could also be the result o f response to multiple different situations in a short period o f time, events that attract large media attention, or contact with dead or severely injured victims (Harris et al, 2002).…”

The effects of traumatic stress on firefighters' world assumptions.

“…Other descriptions of traumatic events include multiple over-lapping responses, significant media attention, dangerous fire-suppression scenarios, and contact with a dead or severely injured child (Beaton, Murphy, Johnson, Pike, & Corneil, 1999;Goodman, Corcoran, Turner, Yuan, & Green, 1998;Harris et al, 2002).…”

“…Critical incidents in the emergency services have also been related to a personal loss or injury (e.g., threats to self or coworker's safety), traumatic stimuli (e.g., gruesome victim incidents, body handling, completed suicides and/or mass casualty accidents), failure of rescue efforts, and/or human error resulting in the death of a coworker or patient (Beaton, Murphy, Johnson, Pike, & Comeil, 1999;Harris, Baloglu, & Stacks, 2002). Other descriptions of traumatic events include multiple over-lapping responses, significant media attention, dangerous fire-suppression scenarios, and contact with a dead or severely injured child (Beaton, Murphy, Johnson, Pike, & Corneil, 1999;Goodman, Corcoran, Turner, Yuan, & Green, 1998;Harris et al, 2002).…”