Response to Incident Trauma
For prolonged or life threatening crises, counseling should be available for
campus workers, police and emergency personnel, and possibly CMT personnel for
critical incident defusing and debriefing resulting from secondary traumatic
effects. This counseling may require a response from outside mental health
personnel. Other conditions include:
- Consideration for multi-bilingual needs.
- Staff meetings to eliminate rumors.
- Specialized workshops to allow those who feel angry about the crisis to
express their feelings.
- Deal with problems of deceased students property i.e. lockers/desk/housing
mates.
- Remove name from rosters.
- Allow excused absences and time off for students, faculty, and staff.
- Discuss appropriateness of creating memorials.
- Assess whether families of victims want recognition of victim at
graduation, ceremony, assemblies, yearbooks etc.
- Closing of mourning period.