Your human capitol is what keeps you in business. Without healthy, happy and productive employees, your bottom line is less than it could be. Stressed employees are at risk for burn-out, shortened tenure, and physical and mental illnesses that accompany experiencing the stress of a critical incident.
Critical incidents that would benefit from a supportive intervention include:
Natural disasters,
Serious industrial accidents,
Diagnosis of a serious illness,
Suicide or traumatic death of a colleague or family member,
High conflict marital and parenting events,
Sexual assault,
Robbery,
Kidnapping,
Transportation accidents,
Loss of home or property
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FIGHT/FLIGHT /FREEZE
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When your employees are experiencing a traumatic type stressor, their minds and bodies react with the Fight/Flight/Freeze response. This hard wired response can help with immediate survival. However, the ongoing neuro-chemical adjustment to the Fight/Flight/Freeze response can become chronic and disruptive after the immediate impact of an event. Personal and organizational productivity days after the initial shock are at risk. With the appropriate Psychological First Aid, your employees will be able to return to work as soon as possible, protecting your investment in their training and experience. It is also expected that the costs of extended leave for recovery, work terminations and disability claims will be greatly reduced.
CORPORATE LEADERSHIP and TRAUMA
Effective leadership includes a frank and compassionate response to workplace tragedies, especially for those employees and dependents who are experiencing these stressors in a remote location. Powerlessness is frightening and paralyzing. Experiencing this sort of event in a remote location magnifies to potential for ongoing damage due to the lack of connectedness and an immediate intimate support system. Leadership that supplies not only acknowledgement, but personalized guidance for recovery and appropriate support will find the natural resiliency of these employees to be enhanced. Professional assessment of the severity of individual impact and need for further interventions can also benefit the management decision making after a critical incident. After “boots on the ground” contact with affected employees, management consultation for helpful corporate responses can be formulated.
CUSTOMIZED PROFESSIONAL RESOURCE
Dr. Mihelich has provided crisis intervention and critical incident debriefing to many individuals, families and organizations in the United States and in Europe. She is able to quickly and compassionately turn a disaster into a healthy, future focused plan for healing, resiliency and a return to productivity. With the ability to assess what is immediatley needed in many varied situations and locals, providing creative problem solving and psychoeducation that is applicable and easy to utilize for her clients, she has proven invaluable to thousands of soldiers and civilians. Her training, calm presence and clinical expertise has repeatedly helped those who have experienced threats to their ability: not only to perform their job, but threats to their ability to live a life of vibrant mental health. She has the expectation and skills to get your employees equipped to return to pre-crisis levels of functioning.
If you are interested in discussing how Worthy Consults can support your employees anywhere in the world, please contact us to develop an individualized plan for your company. We believe that any place, any time, the right sort of support improves company morale at all levels, increases the progress of healthy recovery, decreases medical claims and provides management with major insight into the status of their employees. We want to assist you in formulating an appropriate, compassionate corporate response to trauma in whatever form it may come.
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