Butte Critical Incident Stress
Management Team
Serving Police • Fire • EMS Personnel
BCISM ~ Article List
• StressResponseSigns • "Pastoral Crisis Intervention": Toward a Definition BCISM Book Lending-Library • "CISD - An Operations Manual for the Prevention of Traumatic Stress Among Emergency Services and Disaster Workers"
• Getting to the core of Post-traumatic stress
• Psychological Trauma and PTSD: A Review
• America Under Attack: The "10 Commandments" of Responding to Mass Terrorist Attacks
• Crisis Management Briefings (CMB): Large Group
Crisis Intervention in Response to Terrorism, Disasters, and Violence
• Children's Reactions and Needs After Disaster
• TERROR: How to Talk to Children
• Family Recovery From Terror, Grief and Trauma
• Treating Family Survivors of Mass Casualties:A CISM Family Crisis Intervention Approach
• Coordinating a Multiple Casualty Critical Incident
• Stress Management (CISM) Response Within a Medical/Surgical Hospital Setting
• Weapons of Mass Destruction and Terrorism: Mental Health Consequences and Implications for Planning and Training
• "Emergency Services Stress"
Guidelines for Preserving the Health and Careers of Emergency Services Personnel.
• "Emergency Response to Crisis"
A crisis intervention guidebook for emergency service personnel.
• "Critical Incident Stress in Wildland Firefighting"
• "Human Elements Training for Emergency Services, Public Safety and Disaster Personnel"
• "A Clinical Guide to the Treatment of the Human Stress Response"
• "Post Traumatic Stress Disorder - The Victims Guide to Healing and Recovery"
BCISM ~ Book Reading List
• TRAUMA & RECOVERY by Judith Herman, M.D.
This book addresses CISD issues along with rape, Viet Nam vets, political prisoners and chronic childhood abuse.