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Emergency Service Worker's (ESW's) can experience excitement from saving property from destruction and the ultimate satisfaction of saving a life, but the exhilaration and thrills can come to a holt when ESW's are faced with an occupational hazard called Critical Incident Stress (CIS).(Mitchell 86).
A critical incident does not have to be a major disaster, but is any situation faced by Emergency Service Worker's (ESW) that cause ....
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.... scene or at a later date. This happens for example in the case of a death of a fellow worker in the line of duty and cannot return to his normal duties's. CIS at times can be so powerful as to cause mental and emotional breakdown in extreme case's death.(Mitchell 83).
The most common cognitive or mental symptom's of an acute stress reaction are impaired thinking and decision making, poor concentration and confusion, memory problem's, flashback's of previous scene's a ....
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