First Respondents and Handling Critical Incident Stress

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First responders such as firefighters and EMS workers are often reluctant to discuss the emotional toll critical incidents have had on them, and tend to discount or refuse help. This paper stresses the importance of the Critical Incident Stress Debriefing (CISD) in helping to avoid problems related to stress before they occur. This paper has six pages and five sources are listed in the bibliography.