This page includes information and links to a variety of emergency service topics including: Violence in the Workplace, Shiftwork Stress, School Violence, Stress Management, and Crisis Intervention and Critical Incident Stress Management, and crisis related journals. Contents are also reference material for the Crisis Intervention course at the UMD School of Medicine. PowerPoint slides and handouts from conferences are also available below.

For other resources, check Dr. Swenson's Faculty Homepage and Forensic Page.

Slides, Handouts, and other conference materials

PTSD Institute, St. Louis Country Human Service Conference, Duluth, MN October 19-20, 1999. Slides and materials from presenters.

Mechanisms of healing in critical incident & PTSD and the "power therapies" (Swenson's power point presentation, 11 slides)

Crisis Intervention

Overview (good article on key concepts)

Emotional First Aid-- excellent and extensive collection of practical papers

• Shiftwork adaptation is one of the more challenging aspects of emergency service for professionals and paraprofessionals. Within only a few days of work overload,  interveners begin to experience many of the same symptoms as the persons they are serving. Check out my site on shoftwork.

• Violence & Safety in the Workplace (my expanded webpage)
• Workplace bullying
• Workplace violence   (excellent overview and links)
• NIOSH Factsheet
• Bullying in the workplace--
• Air Rage Information Resources--

• A Systems Approach to Understanding School Violence (Article by Swenson & Rigoni, 1999)
• Assault Prevention Network--School Violence (articles & links)
• APA report on bullies
• SchoolNet: School violence is epidemic
• Pathways Youth Violence links
• National Center for Injury Prevention & Control: National youth violence stats
• Facts on violence & youth
• Youth violence, guns, & drugs
• Office of Social & Economic Data Analysis
• APA on youth violence
• Creating safe and drug-free schools--An action guide
• Gang activity at achool: prevention
• ERIC overview of strategies to reduce school violence
• ERIC gaining control of violence in the schools
• Crisis Intervention Resource Manual for schools

Critical Incident Stress Management

Critical Incident Crisis Response: Stopping the Ripple Effect. (Swenson, 1997) This presentation was made to the International Association of Police Chaplains in Duluth, MN, in July, 1997. The power Point slide presentation (about 24 slides) can be downloaded here.
• Canadian Traumatic Stress Network (Network information, committees, links)
• CISD Reference List (current extensive bibliography)
• Critical Incident Stress (Search & rescue Society of British Columbia--several articles,  self assessments, links)
• Crisis Intervention explanation and model
• Critical Incident Stress Reaction (symptom list)
• David Baldwin's Trauma Information Pages (Excellent collection of info on PTSD, trauma resources, support, disaster links, and handouts).
• Disaster Finder (Search index for Internet disaster sites)
• Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) (Description, training, discussion group, studies supporting the approach)
• FEMA National Emergency Training Center (Extensive online catalog system to 50,000  documents)
• Police Stress Links

• GriefNet (Info and support on grieving, suicide & homicide, hospice, caregivers, pet loss,  disability, and education)
• Incest Survivors Resource Network International
• International Critical Incident Foundation (Training information, symptoms an intervention, hotline, links)
• International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies Online (Conference announcements  and reports, links, issues)
• International Traumatology Forum (Subscribe to trauma discussion group)
• Jim's PTSD Page (Newsletter, assessment, articles, links)
• Medications for Combat PTSD
• National Center for PTSD (research education, information, extensive document database)
• PTSD & cancer
• National Hazard Center (Info clearinghouse, e-newsletter, disaster research, training, networking)
• Post Traumatic Gazette (Online newsletter alternative to traditional mental health services)
• Post Trauma Resources (brief training and info on violence prevention & management, safety & trauma)
• Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (American and European diagnostic criteria, research, treatment, booklets, magazines)
• Psych Trauma Pages (U. of Queensland--sites, sources, documents related to PTSD)
• Search & rescue society of British Columbia (critical incedent stress)
• Traumatology (e-journal on traumatic process and resolution)
• Usenet Group on Dissociation
• Usenet Group on PTSD
• Victim-Assistance Online (information, aid, advocacy, support to victims)

Crisis intervention in child abuse and neglect (extensive online manual)
National data archive on child abuse and neglect (data sets and papers)
Domestic Violence Service Listing Worldwide

Survivors of Sexual Assault: A general Information Guide for Women and Families

Critical Incident Stress Debriefing

Work-related psychological trauma (application study of CISD)
Origins and natural history of debriefing (article)
A critical view on debriefing  (short article)
Review of CISM

Thought-Field Therapy

A discussion & critique of TFT

NeuroLinguistic Programming (NLP) and Visual-Kinesthetic dissociation

Disaster Response (large collection of links)
METU Disaster Management Model
Disaster--Helping Children Cope (suggestions for families)

• Australian Journal of Disaster and Trauma Studies (articles available)
• Child Survivor of Traumatic Stress (Newsletter)
• International Journal of Stress Management
• Journal of Traumatic Stress (list of contents)
• NPC Clinical Quarterly(searchable database)
• PTSD Research Quarterly(searchable database)
• Traumatology  (some articles available)
• Trauma Response (Publication of The American Academy of Experts in Traumatic Stress) Excellent full text sample articles

Stress Management for Patient & Physician
Mind Tools--collection of briefs on stress management
Dealing with Physician Burnout
Canadian Medical Association Journal survey of Physician Stress
Reducing Physician Stress in Managed Care
Family Practice & burnout
Physician burnout articles
Critique of Health System

Police StressLine  (articles on law enforcement stress)
Central Florida Police Stress Unit
The Heavy Badge

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