Storing Traumatic Memories: Insights for First Responders

This presentation will examine the impact of critical incident exposures and chronic career traumatic stress on the First Responder. Particular attention will be paid to the storage of traumatic memories and their effects on brain structures associated with critical incident processing. Implications of the Adaptive Information Processing model for treatment, resilience and coping will be discussed. 

Objectives: 

Participants will be able to describe critical incident trauma and its impact on the brain; 

Participants will be able to describe how traumatic, as opposed to non-traumatic, memories are stored; 

Participants will be able to describe how critical incident trauma affects personal and professional functioning; 

Participants will be able to describe the Adaptive Information Processing model, and effective treatment for critical incident exposure"