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In the line of fire : trauma in the emergency services / Cheryl Regehr, Ted Bober.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Regehr, Cheryl.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Emergency medical personnel--Job stress.
- Emergency medical personnel.
- Fire fighters--Job stress.
- Fire fighters.
- Police--Job stress.
- Police.
- Emergency medical personnel--Mental health.
- Fire fighters--Mental health.
- Police--Mental health.
- Psychic trauma.
- Post-traumatic stress disorder.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (285 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Based on original work & clinical experience, this new work describes the consequences of trauma exposure on emergency responders & the personal, organisational & societal factors that can ameliorate or exacerbate traumatic response.
- Contents:
- Contents; Foreword; 1 Setting the Stage; 2 All in a Day's Work: Traumatic Events in the Line of Duty; 3 Building a Framework: Health, Stress, Crisis, and Trauma; 4 Disastrous Events: Mass Emergencies and the Emergency Responder; 5 The Right Stuff: Trauma and Coping; 6 Help or Hindrance? Stress and the Emergency Service Organization; 7 Heroes or Villains? Public Inquiries; 8 Are You Coming Home Tonight? The Impact of Emergency Service Work on Families; 9 The Continuum of Interventions I: Doing the Right Job at the Right Time
- 10 The Continuum of Interventions II: Interventions for Extreme Stress11 Laying the Foundation: Developing Trauma Response Teams; 12 Keeping It Going: Team Maintenance; 13 Does It Work? Evaluating the Efficacy of Interventions; References; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-258) and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-029003-X
- 1-280-53384-6
- 1-60256-862-6
- 0-19-803693-0
- 1-4237-4599-X
- OCLC:
- 819512180
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