Research on Critical Incident Stress Management System for disaster workers

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To gain an understanding of the current status of Critical Incident Stress Management of disaster workers and to identify what form the education and training of staff members engaged in these management programs should take, we conducted field surveys in England, Australia and New Zealand from 2004 to 2005. As part of the survey, we conducted semi-structured interviews with representatives and workers at disaster relief organizations based in the above three countries.The results of the interviews showed that a combination of two different approaches was generally used in all three countries : a group approach, and an individual approach. However, even in organizations that employed both approaches, few used the group approach as primary technique : most used systems that focused on individual approaches. When using an individual approach, emphasis was placed not only on support by experts but also by trained peers, and peer supporters.Trends in Critical Incident Stress Management in the three countries may be summarized. The ideal form that Critical Incident Stress Management should take in Japan was studied, based on these observations and discussions.