Table of Contents

Foreword, Albert R. Roberts
1: Setting the Stage
2: All in a Day's Work: Traumatic Events in the Line of Duty
3: Building a Framework: Health, Stress, Crisis, and Trauma
4: Disastrous Events: Mass Emergencies and the Emergency Responder
5: The Right Stuff: Trauma and Coping
6: Help or Hindrance? Stress and the Emergency Service Organization
7: Heroes or Villains? Public Inquiries
8: Are You Coming Home Tonight? The Impact of Emergency Service Work on Families
9: The Continuum of Intervention I: Doing the Right Job at the Right Time
10: The Continuum of Intervention II: Interventions for Extreme Stress
11: Laying the Foundation: Developing Trauma Response Teams
12: Keeping it Going: Team Maintenance
13: Does it Work? Evaluating the Efficacy of Interventions
References
Index

About the Author

Cheryl Regehr, Ph.D., is Professor of Social Work and the Director of the Centre for Applied Social Research at the University of Toronto, where she also holds appointments in the Faculty of Law and the Institute for Medical Sciences. Her practice background includes direct service and administration in emergency mental health and workplace trauma. Ted Bober, MSW, is a consultant and psychotherapist specializing in traumatic
stress, disaster mental health, and occupational health. He holds positions at the Ontario Medical Association's Physician Health Program, the Greater Toronto Airport's Crisis and Disaster Response Team, and Health Canada's national
Psycho-Social Emergency Response Team.

Reviews

A hint at the wisdom and readability of this ambitious book can be found on its opening pages, in which the authors dedicate their work "to those important individuals in our lives who have taught us about resilience, grace and gratitude". Using research culled from interviews with hundreds of police officers, paramedics, firefighters, and emergency mental health practitioners. In The Line of Fire presents a sober look at the work emergency responders do and the trauma-inducing situations they face. What sets this book apart from others I've seen on the subject is its understanding of the contextual nature of trauma. Lancet