Dealing with stress and trauma in emergency services: an international conference.

At foot of title page: Conference manual

Copyright by R. Robinson

Includes bibliographies

Papers presented at international conference held 26-28 August, 1988, at Dallas Brooks Hall, Melbourne, Australia

Sponsored by Social Biology Resources Centre, Melbourne, Australia

Critical incident stress debriefing teams: achievements of the past and challenges for the future / Jerry T. Mitchell -- Traumatic encounters with death: the evolution and prevention of post traumatic stress reaction and disorder / Beverley Raphael -- How we got started in Canberra / Sue Pittman and John McLaren -- Treating the victims of armed hold ups / Michael Tunnecliffe -- Disasters in school setting: Cairns High School bus accident / Trevor McManus -- An investigation into the personality characteristics associated with job performance in ambulance officers / David Dawson -- Personality profile of ambulance officers in Australia / David Dawson -- Impact of the increase in violent crimes on ambulance officers / Graeme Field -- Dealing with violence against human health workers / Vaughan Bowie -- Invisible stressors / Roy Popkin -- Dealing with the impact of death on funeral company staff / David Treloar -- Rational-emotive therapy and the prevention of emotional problems in emergency service personnel / Melvyn Bowler -- The longitudinal effects of the Ash Wednesday disaster on fire fighters / A. C. McFarlane -- Working with families of emergency service staff / Vickie Harris -- Post shooting trauma / Roger Solomon -- Traumatic loss: implications for victims and implications for workers / Beverley Raphael -- Distresses, individuals and social: the cases for including victims of crime / Tony Taylor -- The Hinton Rail Disaster / Robert Van Goethem -- The personality profile of emergency workers / George Everly -- The development of psychological innoculation programs for police staff involved in DVI and mortuary duties / Ian Miller -- The grief of stress and trauma / Irene Renzenbrink -- The Victorian Ambulance Crisis Counselling Unit: its development and current functioning -- Panic and post traumatic stress disorder / James Quinn -- Stress issues relating to the country fire authority / Ian Symons -- Coping with vulnerability / Roger Solomon