Public Health
When measured with the Secondary Traumatic Stress Scale (STSS), criteria for a PTSD-like diagnosis were met by 15.2% of social workers (Bride, 2007), 16.3% of oncology staff (Quinal et al., 2009), 19% of substance abuse counselors…
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Much of what we know about post-traumatic stress injuries is because of military service-members. Over many centuries, gruesome combat experiences and associated trauma-related symptoms were referred to as soldier’s heart, shell shock, battle fatigue, combat neurosis and gross-stress reaction…
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First responders witness death, destruction, crisis, and much of the worst of what humans can do to hurt one another. Facing what can feel like inexorable human tragedy, first responders are often affected by vicarious trauma and post-traumatic stress injuries.
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Our nation would be deadlocked without sanitation collectors, linepersons, and water utilities specialists; highway maintenance, iron, steel and agricultural workers; miners, loggers, and forest service employees; accident investigators and disaster response personnel, among others. The work of these professionals too often…
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While facilitating billions of journeys per year, our nation’s transit operators balance the competing demands of safety, customer-focused service and agency operating standards, all while managing occupational stress associated with on-the-job assault, harassment, and accidents…
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