When Helping Hurts: PTSD in First Responders
More sectors of society than first thought may be effected by PTSD — beyond the military to first responders, to journalists who report trauma and may also be exposed to threat, to people who have lived with domestic violence, to refugees in indefinite detention, to people from indigenous communities dealing with historical and current trauma, to prison populations and victims of violent crime.
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The Value of Effective, Recurrent Dispatch Training
Emergency Dispatch Centers (911) across the United States employ many unsung heroes of events in which decisions made under high stress can be the difference between life and death. These decisions are no less critical than those made by police officers or fire fighters in the field; yet emergency dispatchers rarely receive the same level of recognition. Hence, emergency dispatchers often do not receive the ongoing perishable skills training that is often mandated for their higher profile co‐workers.
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