By Cheryl Regehr, Ted Bober,
- Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
- Number Of Pages: 288
- Publication Date: 2004-12-08
- Sales Rank: 504519
- ISBN / ASIN: 0195165020
- EAN: 9780195165029
- Binding: Hardcover
- Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
- Studio: Oxford University Press, USA
- Average Rating: 5
- Total Reviews: 1
Book Description:
This much-needed new book, based on the authors' original research and clinical experience, describes the consequences of trauma exposure on police officers, fire fighters, and paramedics. Weaving data collected in large-scale quantitative studies with the personal stories of responders shared in qualitative interviews, this much-needed account explores the personal, organizational, and societal factors that can ameliorate or exacerbate traumatic response. Stress theory, organizational theory, crisis theory, and trauma theory provide a framework for understanding trauma responses and guiding intervention strategies. Using an ecological perspective, the authors explore interventions spanning prevention, disaster response, and follow-up, on individual, family, group, organizational, and community levels. They provide specific suggestions for planning intervention programs, developing trauma response teams, training emergency service responders and mental health professionals, and evaluating the effectiveness of services provided. Disaster, whether large-scale or small, underscores our ongoing vulnerability and the crucial need for response plans that address the health and well being of those who confront disaster on a daily basis. In the Line of Fire speaks directly to these emergency response workers as well as to the mental health professionals who provide them with services, the administrators who support their efforts, and the family members who wonder if their loved one will return home safely from work tonight.
Date: 2006-01-30 Rating: 5
Review:
Best EMS book I have ever read
This book really shows what EMS work is all about. It doesn't glamorize things like they do on TV. Instead it gets to the nitty gritty nuts and bolts stuff that is everyday EMS. In my 26 years in the medical field, some as an RN and some as an EMT, this book shows all of the good and bad of medicine. Nurses tend to resent paramedics because they didn't have to go to school as long. I, for one, have been trained in both. You can't take an RN and put them out of their environment without the EMS training. This shows what EMS is and what it can do when properly utilized. The burnout section was also pertanent to any medical personnel. This book should be read by every person in the medical field.
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