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Critical Incident Stress
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Critical Incident StressEmergency ManagementEmergency Department AdministrationEmergency CareSocial WorkCritical Incident TechniqueEmergency Medical ServicesIncident ManagementBehavioral StressEmergency SituationsNursingLaw Enforcement PersonnelIncident InvestigationPatient SafetyBusinessEmergency Medical ServiceOut-of-hospital Emergency Medical ServiceCrisis ManagementMedicineEmergency MedicinePost-traumatic Stress Disorder
Emotional, cognitive and behavioral stress can negatively affect the performance of fire, rescue and law enforcement personnel responding to emergency situations. Impaired professional performance in these crises not only endangers the incident victims, all involved responders and their families, but potentially the lives and property of entire communities. This article describes the major administrative and clinical leadership of a hospital-based Social Work department in implementing one of the few statewide critical incident stress debriefing teams for emergency service personnel in the United States. It represents a model for program development by other organizations.