Critical Incident Stress Management for Business Aviation
Transcript of Critical Incident Stress Management for Business Aviation
Critical Incident
An extremely powerful event that has the potential to cause unusual psychological distress
in healthy, normal people.
Critical Incident
Any situation faced by people that causes them to experience strong emotional reactions with the potential to interfere with their ability to function at the scene or later.
Mental Health Model
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Personality Profile • Obsessive/Compulsive
– Detail Oriented
– Quality Oriented
• Histrionic
– “Self” Focus
– Blame Ourselves
• Controlling
– High Self Esteem
Personality Profile • Risk Takers/Action Oriented
– Seek Instant Gratification
– We Like Toys
– Like to Make Fun of/with Others
• Dedicated
– Job
– Children
– Spouse
• Rigid/Inflexible
• Tenacious
• Procrastinators
Stress Management
• Identify Stressors
• Address, Fix, Remove, Manage Stressors
• Practice Techniques to Decrease Stress Response to Body& Mind
Critical Incident High Risk
Psychological Trauma Like Physical Trauma
Post Traumatic Stress/Disorder
Critical Incident Response Program (CIRP)
• Essential Part of your ERP
• Provides Appropriate Mental Health Professional when and where needed
• Provides Peer Support Network
• In conjunction with ACSF, Aircare provides you a CIRP that you can add to your ERP
Critical Incident Response Program (CIRP)
• Pre incident education, preparation
• Demobilizations
• Crisis management briefings (information management
for co-workers, families, survivors etc)
• Defusings (small group intervention)
• Critical Incident Stress Debriefing (Formal group process)
• One on one crisis intervention
• Family support
• Follow up and refferals