Thesis (D. Min.)--Denver Seminary, 2008. / Includes text of Critical incident stress management (CISM): grief following trauma, 1st ed., by Kevin L. Ellers, Nancy Rikli and H. Norman Wright, c2006. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 385-389, 402-431).

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Victoria University (Melbourne, Vic.), 2009.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 2006. / Title from PDF title page screen. Advisor: Craig S. Cashwell; submitted to the School of Education. Includes bibliographical references (p. 139-165).

Thesis (Ed.D.)--Duquesne University, 2006. / Title from document title page. Abstract included in electronic submission form. Includes bibliographical references (p.93-101) and index.

The whole work deals with problems of crisis intervention concentrated on a specific area of working place in the telephone line of confidence. This work includes the theory concerning our theme, from the general characteristics of crises to crisis intervention. Further it engages in the telephonic crisis intervention. It explains main rules of crisis intervention and deals with suicidal themes and questions of ethics. The whole work contains the description, classification, comparison and summary of information and facts. In the conclusion, it focuses on the possibilities and limitations during communication between both parts of telephone calls.

The thesis draws attention to the most frequent causes of children unfavourable life situations which are solved in crisis centres. Introductory part focuses on theoretical definitions of crisis, crisis intervention, family and its importance for children, the problems of divorces and CAN syndrome. The aim of the thesis was to find out which are the most frequent problems encountered by the crisis centres workers and compare the clients and services of two selected crisis centres in Prague and České Budějovice. At the beginning the hypothesis was stated: the problems of CAN syndrome in clients of crisis centres occurs more often than other problems. The hypothesis was proved only in Children Crisis Centre in Prague. For the service comparison of the chosen centres semi-standardized interview with nine informants was used. From the answers of crisis centre workers the following hypothesis emerged: crisis centre workers suppose that provided services in terms of crisis intervention are sufficient.

Use of restraint during crisis intervention is of great concern as these situations evoke stress responses in the direct care staff that respond to them. This stress response often leads to non- neutral reactions. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) has been used to effectively de- literalize task-related stimuli in individuals that share similar physiological symptoms of stress to those that direct care staff might experience during crisis. The purpose of this study was to evaluate how an ACT intervention would improve direct care staff performance during crisis interventions and increase accuracy of incident report writing. Results indicated that four out of the six participants improved their performance following ACT training, while the most improvement was observed in accuracy in incident report writing. This study expands upon the limited research available on the utility of ACT in the workplace. Implications of this study suggest that ACT may be a beneficial intervention to increase staff performance during crisis.

The degree work deals with the parents of pre-maturely-born children. The part dedicated to theory handles the issue of the immaturity of prematurely-born children including the latest trends in nursing the given children. The other issue tackled in this part is the family and its specifics concerning a prematurely-born child and the choices of how to enhance the family. This part also focuses on the communication with and the expertise of people working in the field involved in the care of premature children and their parents. The target of the work has been to discover and reflect upon what the mothers of prematurely-born children are experiencing, what needs they may have in the field of communication with and expertise of the healthcare staff and to define what enhancing therapy interventions are at the disposal of parents while their children are hospitalized. To achieve the targets of my work, quality research has been conducted and the method employed was asking questions and a semi-standardized interviewing technique of the mothers of prematurely-born children and the people working in the field. In addition, the document?s contents analysis was completed. The research files were formulated by the people working in the field from the obstetric facility ?The Institute for Mother and Child Care? and by the mothers of prematurely-born children who gave birth at the above healthcare facility. Another intention of the research was to confront the views of mothers of prematurely-born children with the approach of the people working in the field. Resultant from the analysis of the above testimonies, hypotheses have been inferred. The work points out the necessity of a tender approach, of providing emotional support and also empathetic communication from the side of the healthcare staff. Further, the healthcare staff should be trained on how to provide timely-crisis enhancement to the parents. The expertise of the staff is also important in providing the complex follow-up mental and social support to the parents. The outcomes of the degree work may be applied as a feedback for the particular healthcare facility and/or generally to improve the care quality for parents of prematurely-born children.

Theoretical part First chapter of my thesis on Comparison of Psychosocial Crisis Intervention among Basic Parts of the Integrated Rescue System deals with general topics like stress and its symptoms. The next chapter follows individual parts of the integrated rescue system and stress situations resulting from their jobs. Work in IRS varies a lot but the impact on people employed in IRS is pretty similar. Third chapter deals with crisis management. Following is chapter number four presenting signs, forms and steps of crisis intervention. The most important chapter of the theoretical section of the thesis is the fifth chapter called Options of crisis intervention for IRS parts. The options of psychological support for firemen, policemen and paramedics are described here in detail. Research part I intended to find out to what extent is a job with IRS burdensome for its members, whether they know about the options of psychological support and how they make use of it employing a survey consisting of 26 questions. 300 people were addressed with the return rate amounting to 87,67%. Basic descriptive statistics were produced. Hypothesis no. 1 and 2 were tested by Chi-square test on the level of significance of 0,05. Hypothesis no. 3 was tested by Fischer exact test on the level of significance of 0,05. Objectives of the thesis were following: to explain terms related to the topic of psychosocial crisis intervention to assess the means of support each part of IRS offers its members to find out whether the members of IRS know about these means of support and use them to compare these support services provided by respective parts of IRS and come up with suggestions for eventual improvement Results The survey contains all three parts of IRS proportionately. The most respondents work at ZZS (paramedics, 36,5%), the least at the Police force (30,8%). Regarding the hypotheses and objectives of my thesis the outcomes are following. 68,8% of the respondents agreed that their job is mentally very demanding. Level of psychological stress is the same for all parts of IRS. This corroborates the first hypothesis. 87,8% of respondents claim to know about the option of psychologist or peer consultations. Yet only 27,8% of respondents admit to make use of this option, with firemen doing so most frequently. The second hypothesis was corroborated only to a certain extent for only 16 members of Police claimed to make use of psychological support. Of all the respondents in the survey 158 people admit to have never used this kind of support. Hypothesis no. 3 was thus corroborated. Conclusion All the members of IRS regard their work as psychologically very stressful. The research part proved that level of information about means of crisis intervention is high among the members of IRS. Mainly firemen consider the psychological support to be necessary, a fact which could be expected relating to the nature of their job. Policemen are those who use the least of crisis intervention support (and provided the smallest number of respondents for the survey as well). Crisis intervention is most popular with the firemen. Nevertheless it is necessary to continue raising consciousness about crisis intervention and its practical delivery.

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