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wealth of Virginia’s Emergency Medical Services department has established regional Critical Incident Stress Debriefing (CISD) teams to help fire and rescue personnel involved in particularly upsetting situations deal with their emotions about the situation in a healthy manner. This is analogous to an Employee Assistance program for our emergency services personnel.

What we have learned is that it is vitally important to talk with others — to share our feelings — following a traumatic incident. But you don’t have to be involved in emergency services work to experience trauma or emotional upset as a part of life.

It can happen, for example, due to the sudden death of a parent, child or close friend. It is especially likely if the death occurred as a result of a situation which was gruesome, or which involved extreme pain. It may be even more upsetting if anyone involved has thoughts that the death may have been prevented

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