064 Secondary Traumatic Stress

In this firefighter training episode, Anita Brooks and David Soler gives us some tools to help others and ourselves through the emotional battles we go through. We learn about secondary traumatic stress, how constantly dealing with death and destruction affects our people in the fire ground, and how we can properly prevent the stress from building up and breaking us down. We discuss: What is Secondary Trauma? What do we need to know about dealing with dealing with death and destruction repeatedly as firefighters? What are some of the things that we can to identify the stress in ourselves and others? What can we do to help ourselves and others? How are we burying stress in to ourselves? What does "We can take stress" mean? Some more advice on how can help ourselves and others.

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064 Secondary Traumatic Stress is an episode from FirefighterToolbox Internet Radio Show by David J Soler.

This episode is 45:38 long.

This episode was published on Jul 21, 2015.

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