Critical Incident Stress CIS

Emergency Service Worker's (ESW's) can experience excitement from saving property from destruction and the ultimate satisfaction of saving a life, but the exhilaration and thrills can come to a holt when ESW's are faced with an occupational hazard called Critical Incident Stress (CIS).(Mitchell 86). A critical incident does not have to be a major disaster, but is any situation faced by Emergency Service Worker's (ESW) that causes them to experience strange reactions which may have …

…immune to Critical Incident Stress. The best Trained and the experience are as vulnerable as the new recruit. Bibliography Mitchell, Jeffrey T.Critical Incident Stress Debriefing Proceedures. NSW Disaster Welfare Co-ordinating Committee,Unversity of Maryland,1986.(Unedited) Mitchell, J. Resnik, H.Emergency Response To Crisis.A crisis intervention guidbook for emergency service personnel,Robert J Brady Company,USA,1986. Department Of Bush Fire Services.Background To Critical Incident Stress and Critical Incident Stress Debriefing.Discussion Paper,Sydney,1992.