Essay On Critical Incident Debriefing

When working in a career field that exposes their employees to stressful situations, it is inevitable that during their time in the field that they will see or go through something traumatic while on the job. This applies to any EMS provider; every day they encounter people in times of need. However, sometimes we can not help these people and this is when critical incident debriefing comes into play. Critical incident debriefing is a supportive crisis intervention group, that is composed of a small group of your peers. CIDS began to have growing support in the 1970’s when state and federal legislation was passed to provide resources and services to those who were traumatized either emotionally or mentally by a critical incident. CISD is designed to eliminate the amount of
Being physically and emotionally healthy is a requirement to being a EMS provider, and CISD works to maintain the emotional well being of employees. The research clearly shows that critical incident debriefing in beneficial to people who have experienced a traumatic event. Also, it is vastly different than going to see a physiatrist, because it is based on group therapy where all the people there have been affected by the same traumatic event. This allows the program to be more welcoming, because you realize that you are not the only one feeling the affects of this event. I believe that knowing you aren’t alone in feeling this way is a major stress reliever because you now know that there are people you can talk to about this. Along with reducing stress and depression in the people that go, CISD is said to increase cooperation within the team which has been traumatized. This is very important because team work is vital to EMS personnel. Overall, I believe that CISD is very important to the well being of individuals who have experienced a traumatic