Johnson County Fire Chaplains Association Johnson County Crisis Response Team Patterson Unit

CISM Team Information

Today, more and more attention is being paid to the stress with which emergency workers must cope. In recent years, new phrases such as critical incident stress (CIS), post traumatic stress, and critical incident stress debriefing (CISD) and management (CISM) have been added to our vocabulary. A critical incident has been defined as any event which has sufficient emotional power to overwhelm a person's usually effective abilities to cope. Current research has clearly identified the need for the debriefing of emergency personnel following a critical incident.

Critical incidents which should automatically be debriefed include: line of duty death or serious injury, suicide of a peer, and disaster or major multi-casualty incident. Police shootings, significant events involving children, incidents involving relatives or known victims, prolonged incidents, especially with a loss of life, events which draw excessive media, or any "high power event" might also require a debriefing.

Other incidents that often stress a professional's ability to cope are the injury or death of a child, especially by a malicious adult, death, man with a gun, high rise fire, known AIDS patient with profuse bleeding, fear of injury or death, injury of self or peer, someone involved who reminds you of someone you love, visual imagery, victim crying out in pain, dealing with survivors, night time operations, and mistakes during an operation.

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