You are attempting to prevent negative reactions such as vicarious traumatization, cumulative stress and the effects of negative self-judgment. Through the process of debriefing the response team, you are working to accomplish three goals: As a result, members of the team may be having some reactions to the debriefing. Because they have spent several hours being exposed to the pain of the people involved in the event, they too have potentially become affected by it.
However, they still have one piece of work left to be done, namely to take a few minutes to debrief themselves. WHY DO IT? When a trauma response team has finished its work with the people involved in a critical incident, they are normally tired and ready to return to their own lives. and I developed a process to work with members after the event to assure their own needs were addressed. After several years responding to traumatic events, we began to be concerned that our most experienced, and thus most called upon members, were gradually leaving the team or talking in terms of being "burned out." It was based in this knowledge that Paul LaBerteaux, Psy.D.
Working in the area of trauma response takes it toll on the helping teams in much the same way as the event overpowered the people in it. We spend the majority of our focus on the people directly involved and impacted by the incident and fail to pay attention to ourselves.
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They often fail to recognize the full impact the event has on their own lives. One classification of the most neglected people in the aftermath of a traumatic incident is often the team who went in to work with all the survivors.
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