Learning Objective #1: examine the strategies to promote mental health in health care providers

Learning Objective #2: critically assess the critical incident stress debriefing intervention after adverse incidents

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The personal health of emergency health care professionals working in a trauma and emergency unit is of paramount importance, in particular their psychological safety.  Emergency health care workers who provides care to patients involved in adverse situations are effected themselves by these events.  Critical Incident Stress debriefing (CISD) is often regarded as a method to prevent posttraumatic stress in the emergency medical services and therfore a model for the training of peer debriefers was developed, implemented and tested in practice to establish if debriefing after adverse exposure to traumatic incidents contributes to the maintaining of the mental health status of emergency health care professionals. This research will provide evidence to provide answers to the question whether debriefing after experiencing critical incidents does indeed promote psychological help.