Critical Incident Stress Debriefing (CISD) and the Prevention of Work-Related Traumatic Stress among High Risk Occupational Groups

The impact of post-traumatic stress upon society is most floridly apparent through the process of warfare. Indeed, it is hard to imagine a more destructive and psychologically debilitating process than warfare. Had there not been a Vietnam conflict, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) may never have found its way into the official psychiatric taxonomy of the third edition (DSM-III) of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (American Psychiatric Association [APA], 1980). Yet warfare is not the only set of conditions, by far, capable of engendering post-traumatic stress.

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