Occupational Psychological Trauma Service
We provide a comprehensive and 'seamless' occupational psychological trauma service consisting of various combinations of the following:
Prevention
- A) Advice on managing stress at work and the development of appropriate policy
- B) Formulating/updating disaster management policy
- C) Workshops and in-house trainings relating to the above
- D) General middle and senior management consultancy
Treatment
- A) Evidence-based psychological interventions for 'at risk' employees
- B) Debriefing of employees involved in disasters (we have experience of various types of major disasters from the one-off incident to major industrial and natural disasters)
A sustained rehabilitation to work
- A) We devise individual return to work plans involving ongoing liaison with employees and their managers
- B) All rehabilitation is aimed at sustaining a prolonged return to work with no further absences related to the reason for the referral wherever possible
- C) Continued support for the employee where secondary traumas exist, with timely support provided to both employee and employer, and liaison with outside agencies where needed
Some important points concerning our treatment philosophy:
The adage that prevention is better than cure is a good one, but frequently very difficult to implement in practice. We aspire to spending 80% of our involvement on prevention. Frequently because circumstance are beyond the control of employer, employee or union, never mind society in general, we frequently find we spend 80% of our time on 'picking the pieces up' after a traumatic event.
We have found that wherever there is a desire to overcome difficulties there are four general rules that are important to a successful outcome:
- Provision of the correct, evidence-based psychological treatment provided in a timely manner without undue delays. In our experience this should include assessment for psychological treatment at around 10-14 days post event. (NB. This is actually more proactive than the relevant NICE guidelines.)
- Knowledge of what is achievable with the correct treatment (and very often the management of misinformation about psychological responses to trauma).
- Return to work plans that acknowledge and manage psychological issues on returning to work. (This frequently includes a return to the full day immediately rather than building hours up, whilst then incrementally working on re-exposure to the full working environment.)
- Aiming not at a return to work, but at a sustained return to work. This sometimes means re-education of workplace staff to be psychologically 'trauma aware'.
Please use our contact us form for referrals or email us at help@davidblore.co.uk for further information about our occupational psychological trauma plans.
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