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\"fireFirst responders coping with traumatic stress are more likely to seek help from a life partner than from their organizations, U of G researcher Grace Ewles has found.<\/p>\n

Those finding spurred Ewles to make trauma and PTSD resources more accessible for firefighters, police officers, paramedics, rescue workers, and their family members. She developed the website SafePlacetoTurn.com<\/a> to provide avenues to peer and family support and to offer information on mental health services for first responders and trauma workers.<\/p>\n

Events on the job can have a deeply traumatic impact on first responders, especially scenes involving children, and homicides or suicides, Ewles says.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are some events that can push an individual to their psychological and emotional limit.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Many individuals attempt to suppress emotional reactions and cope by themselves, says Ewles, who completed her PhD in industrial-organizational psychology at U of G last year.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut in the cases where they do seek support, more frequently they are seeking it from those more personal connections.\u201d<\/p>\n

In two surveys of public safety personnel, Ewles found stigma related to mental health difficulties and cultural factors involving public safety personnel led workers to avoid more formal supports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

First responders coping with traumatic stress are more likely to seek help from a life partner than from their organizations, U of G researcher Grace Ewles has found. Those finding spurred Ewles to make trauma and PTSD resources more accessible for firefighters, police officers, paramedics, rescue workers, and their family members. 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