It’s no surprise that trauma exposure is very common for first responders. This resource is designed to give an overview of the various types of trauma that can impact first
responders. We hope that it will help bring language and understanding to experiences that can be confusing and hard to convey to the people in your life.
What is trauma?
In broadest terms, trauma is something that affects our sense of the world being safe. Trauma has traditionally been defined as a threat to physical safety and is something that
can be both directly experienced or witnessed, examples include:
- accidents
- natural disasters
- physical and sexual violence
- extreme abuse and neglect
How does trauma cause injury?
Traumatic stress can cause psychological injury and no one, no matter how tough or experienced, is immune.
Trauma is very personal and sometimes objectively less severe events can cause us pain in surprising ways.
Download this resource to read more.