Public Safety committee  They do absolutely. Awareness is key.

Public Safety committee  I think it's an excellent program, and I think it's had a lot of success in the military. I think all areas of occupational stress really benefit from that. I'm happy to see that it's been individualized to the different professions.

Public Safety committee  Absolutely. There's evidence now that mindfulness is also effective in the treatment of post-traumatic stress, and Dr. Frewen has developed a website that is available. I can't speak for him, but he's made it available to a lot of different populations, and if you contact him I'm

Public Safety committee  Yes. Often, when somebody comes back into the family with post-traumatic stress, they're really dysregulated and they're angry and they can't control their emotions. That can be very traumatizing for the whole family, so sometimes you can have this intergenerational piece to the

Public Safety committee  We have several evidence-based treatments right now, and usually people recommend about 12 sessions of treatment. If we look at the reality of, for example, the veterans who start these treatments, over half of these veterans don't finish these treatments. I think there's a big i

Public Safety committee  Those would be weekly sessions.

Public Safety committee  There are a number of reasons. Some feel the treatment is not working, and some have difficulty engaging in the treatment. There seems to be a problem with some of the standard treatments, and with people completing them, and being able to engage in them. There's some important l

Public Safety committee  Absolutely. I think there's very little research on this topic, and we could certainly really benefit from learning more.

Public Safety committee  I think setting up a committee that comes up with best practice guidelines that are flexible and that promote an individualized medicine approach would be very useful. Then the whole country could refer to those in the treatment of these disorders.

Public Safety committee  Thank you for your question. I think it's a very important point. We know now, and we have an incredible amount of data, that early adverse experience is a tremendous risk factor for all mental illness, not just post-traumatic stress but depression, alcohol and drug abuse, and yo

Public Safety committee  I think you have to be careful about what you define as post-traumatic stress. I think often it can be related to grief as well. The people doing these jobs often have burnout. I think we have to be careful about what we call post-traumatic stress and what we call grief and burno

Public Safety committee  I think the key to prevention is education, really being aware of what post-traumatic stress disorder is. It's also having a top-down approach so that the leaders—for example, the fire chief, or the leader in policing—are on board, are educated about the consequences of the job,

Public Safety committee  I've seen certain fire departments that have been more open towards trauma-related disorders than others have. I think it really depends right now on the openness of the leader of a facility. If the leader is open to these problems, then the atmosphere for both recovery and the r

Public Safety committee  Good morning, everyone. It's an honour to be able to join your meeting. I just want to give a very brief overview of post-traumatic stress disorder, and of course today the focus is on occupational stress injury. As we know, post-traumatic stress disorder can occur from a number