#25 - Responding to Trauma - Part 2

In Case of Emergency

- How Crisis Teams should Train for Trauma Response

Guest Speaker - Dr. Liz Royle, Director at KRTS International

In continuation from our last episode, in this episode, we dive further into trauma response - how it impacts trauma responders and how they can best prepare for their roles.
Doctor Liz Royle, has over 25 years experience in the field of helping organizations, to strategically prepare for and respond to the impact to humans in workplace in dealing with crisis and trauma. This is also included consultancy to develop trauma intiviatives, creating similation exercises as well as the training the stuff at all levels of organizations.

As an experienced trauma psychotherapist, Liz has also worked extensively with clients suffering from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and crisis reactions including those following multiple fatalities, serious assaults and accidents, acts of terror and natural disasters. She was a founder member of the UK Psychological Trauma Society and is a multiple published, international author.

Her company KRTS International offers a range of award-winning, digital solutions for managing the risks posed by workplace crises and trauma.
03:13 - Why do you think despite having enormous amounts of information available on crisis probabilities is it really difficult for people to talk about crisis preparedness?
06:30 - Could you elaborate a little bit more on that psychological impact for the members of crisis management team? What are the signs and symptoms?
10:20 - It must be a real challenge for a crisis teamin terms of levels of authority. And maybe there is a natural assumption that those leaders will be the ones that are the best coping with the situation but perhaps it is not the case?
10:45 - How do you think we should best support the crisis management teams when they are running the operations? What are their additional needs?
12:52 - When do you think it is the right time for them to receive that support?
16:04 - 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?