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Moving Past a Traumatic Event – EAPs and Peer Support Provide Help

January 13, 2017

He said it was the worst call he had ever experienced. But it was also the best moment of Mike’s* career when help arrived to help him cope. Without warning, this firefighter was involved in a fatal traffic accident while responding to a medical aid. As Mike says, “I was helpless, there was no room to avoid the accident.”

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Filed Under: Services Tagged With: Addiction, Anger, Confidential counseling, Critical Incident Stress Debriefing (CISD), Employee Assistance Services, Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing Therapy (EMDR), First responders, Isolation, Peer support, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)

An unexpected journey with PTSD; A Commentary on One Man’s Story

March 7, 2016

By Nancy Bohl-Penrod, Ph.D., Director of the Counseling Team International (TCTI)

In the summer of 2015, San Diego firefighter/paramedic, Benjamin (Ben) Vernon developed post-traumatic stress syndrome (PTSD) after surviving a violent knife attack while on duty. His personal account of that day and what followed, can be found in Unexpected Nightmares, published February 2016 in JEMS magazine. 1

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Filed Under: Services Tagged With: Critical Incident Stress Management (CISM), Employee Assistance Services, Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing Therapy (EMDR), Integrative Psychotherapy, Mental Health Professionals, Nancy Bohl-Penrod, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), Public Safety Peer Support Training, San Bernardino Shootings

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