- How Crisis Teams should Train for Trauma Response

Guest Speaker -Cath Kerr, Charted Counseling Psychologist and the Co-Founder of KRTS international

Cath is an Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society, a Chartered Counselling Psychologist and co-founder of KRTS International . She began her career in the voluntary sector working with people who had experienced domestic violence.

Since then, she has gone on to specialise in managing the psychological impact of critical incidents, with an MSc in Psychological trauma and around 25 years’ experience of working with high-risk organisations and clients suffering from the full range of reactions to crisis and trauma from acute stress to Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). These have included serious assaults, sexual violence, hostage situations, firearms incidents, witnessing violence and death. She is an EMDR consultant, internationally published author, and presenter.

03:04 - How would you best define what trauma actually is?

04:40 - What sort of symptoms should first responders look while dealing with traumatic or critical signs

06:21 - Some people can get withdrawn, perhaps a little bit quite and maybe are not showing the obvious signs. How would you recommend trying to look after those?

07:05 - What is the primary function
that crisis and trauma responders do and what is the rational behind that?

09:00 - What should be
the first line of action when dealing with trauma response and why?

11:11 - What have you learned by
working in your profession that you may have adopted as a standard working practice either in your personal life or perhaps your professional life?