Resource Tag: FIRST RESPONDERS

First responders, police officers, firefighters, emergency medical technicians (EMTs), and paramedics, experience significant job-related stressors and exposures that may confer increased risk for mental health morbidities (e.g., posttraumatic stress disorder PTSD, suicidal thoughts and behaviors) and hastened mortality (e.g., death by suicide). Inherent in these occupations, however, are also factors (e.g., camaraderie, pre-enlistment screening) that […]

Early responders play a vital role in supporting people who have lost someone they care about, someone they know who has died by suicide. Suicide loss is profoundly different than other loss and grief in that it is a intentional act that can have crippling effects for the family, friends and other survivors. Contact us […]

A fire department is three times more likely to experience a suicide in any given year than a line-of-duty death. Contact us for a copy of this article, or view online at https://www.everyonegoeshome.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/02/Confronting_Suicide_FINAL.pdf

First responders are exposed to traumatic, nontraumatic and organisational stressors that conspire to create stress, potentially leading to emotional issues and/or physical or psychological illness. In addition to individual consequences, stress also takes a toll on the function of emergency departments and their communities. Fortunately, police, fire and ambulance agencies have initiated various preventive measures […]