Recent scientific research has shown that increasing psychological resilience plays an essential role in personnel involved in emergency situations, doctors, nurses, paramedics, firefighters, as it can moderate and prevent severe psychological responses. Poor psychological resilience affects performance, quality of work, life and can ultimately lead to post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) or even more serious psychological disorders.

This is particularly relevant for personnel involved in emergency situations, doctors, nurses, paramedics, firefighters, who are constantly faced with both medical and disaster response emergencies.

One of the most effective coping strategies is psychological resilience, which refers to the ability to cope with difficult moments in life.

Psychological resilience is a skill that is trained. It involves a series of patterns of thinking and behaviour that can be learned and trained.

Overall objective - To increase psychological resilience in personnel involved in emergency situations, doctors, nurses, paramedics, firefighters.

Specific objectives

- to improve resilience through awareness of the emotional consequences of the trauma experienced.

- to acquire behaviours and skills that can increase resilience

- to increase awareness of stress signals resulting from emergency situations by personnel involved in emergency situations doctors, nurses, paramedics, firefighters

- knowledge and use of psychological resilience-building as a technique for managing the effects of individual and group critical situations

The direct target group will be emergency personnel, doctors, nurses, paramedics, volunteers, firefighters, who are the first to come into contact with victims or deceased persons.

The indirect target group is emergency personnel involved in secondary lines of action, police officers, psychologists, social workers, their families, etc.

 

Most importantly, there is a current interest and focus at European and World level to optimise coping techniques in the emergency system and we have chosen together with partners to build completely new psychological resilience assessment tools for medical staff, nurses, paramedics, firefighters involved in emergency situations and to present useful techniques precisely for this purpose in the partner countries in the project.