Critical incident stress Management

Many organizations are now taking the mental welfare of their personnel very seriously, and this is also true of the Fire Service. In line with this policy some services are looking at the whole pictures in terms of managing personnel after a difficult incident. In addition to the occupational health services and access to confidential counselling they are training facilitators to run Critical Incident Stress Management meetings, and training senior personnel to recognize when help may be required.

Critical Incident Stress Management originates from ideas introduced by Dr. Jeffrey Mitchell in 1983, a former firefighter/para-medic. He developed the concept of having a structured meeting for personnel in emergency services, in which they could discuss and understand their reactions after a traumatic incident. He called this meeting Critical Incident Stress Debriefing, and the facilitators of the meeting debriefers.

It was initially thought that such meeting would prevent the development of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, however, this has not been the case. At the same time these meetings have other benefits to personnel and to an organization. Over time the structure of the meetings has evolved and the aims modified in line with research. In order to avoid confusion with operational debriefing many organizations now prefer to call these meetings Critical Incident Stress Management meetings and call the facilitators, Facilitators.

Currently, the aims of CISM meetings are to reduce the emotional impact of events and to accelerate the normal recovery of normal people who are suffering through normal but painful reactions to abnormal events.

ВАРИАНТ № 5

I. Перепишите предложения, подчеркните в каждом из них глaгол-сказуемое и определите его видо-временную форму и залог. Переведите предложения на русский язык. См. образец выполнения № 1.

1. One of the most important things Freud discovered was what he called “the Oedipus complex”.

2. At first scientific psychology took over the same methods with which physiologists and physicists had been investigating behaviour and experience.

3. During this experiment less attention was paid to consciousness and more to the environmental and organic conditions.

4. During an emergency people are doing their best to survive.

II. Перепишите следующие предложения, подчеркните Причастие I и Причастие II и установите функцию каждого из них, т.е. укажите, является ли оно определением, обстоятельством или частью сказуемого. См. образец выполнения № 2.

1. The work reported here has been going on for several years.

2. Parents are influenced by their children just as their children learn from them.

3. One can cope with psychological stress asking for help and communicating with other people.

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