“Firefighter Behavioral Health” Roll-Out: Make Order Out of Chaos

Details

• Personal Author:
  Clay K
• Description:
  Tasked by NFFF in 2009 with the work to fulfill the mission of Initiative #13 - Firefighters and their families must have access to counseling and psychological support - a team of behavioral health specialists worked toward a simple and effective management tool to help firefighters and emergency responders with managing the stress of their work. Combining an evidence-based process with a research-based approach, the team concluded that the popular critical incident debriefing model was often doing more harm than good. The research of Dr. Richard Gist, Vickie Taylor, and Dr. Patricia Watson leads to a remarkably simple and incredibly effective management response to stress. It begins with creating calm and order out of chaos. It begins with effective incident command. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Emergency Responders Firefighters Fires Occupational Health Safety Stress, Psychological
• Keywords:
  Emergency Responders Fire Fighters Fire Fighting Job Stress Psychological Factors
• Publisher:
  International Association of Wildland Fire
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Grant
• Genre:
  Other ; Lay Publication
• Place as Subject:
  Maryland ; OSHA Region 3 ; OSHA Region 8 ; Wyoming
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  28-30
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20054421
• Citation:
  Wildfire Magazine. Missoula, MT: International Association of Wildland Fire, 2013 May-Jun; :28-30
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2013
• Performing Organization:
  National Fallen Firefighters Foundation, Emmitsburg, Maryland
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Start Date:
  20130201
• Source Full Name:
  Wildfire Magazine
• End Date:
  20140131
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:076fc8bdeb20e4d31fd9acd355ca564cef521046fe182206bacd56553f2fc68316a0cb23827b5ac0ee0b8f115d38ecbb4347966f4fbd9c5448d6bc608aca2b7f
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/216995/cdc_216995_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 719.19 KB ]