The management of traumatic stress within organisations: what’s the evidence?

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Numerous organisations routinely send staff to highly challenging environments which places them at risk of developing a range of mental health difficulties including, but not limited to, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). There is now a considerable evidence base which shows that it is broadly possible to split risk factors for developing PTSD, and other traumatic stress related conditions, into factors present before, during and after a traumatic incident. Research consistently shows that the post-incident factors are the strongest predictors of psychological outcome. This exclusive SOM webinar will cover the spectrum of organisational stress management strategies which aim to prevent, detect and treat trauma related mental health conditions. The presentation will follow a primary, secondary and tertiary prevention approach.

Speaker: Neil Greenberg, Professor of Defence Mental Health

Professor Neil Greenberg is a consultant academic, occupational and forensic psychiatrist. Neil served in the United Kingdom Armed Forces for more than 23 years as Royal Navy commando trained medical officer, psychiatrist and researcher. Neil is one of the Forces in Mind Trust Research Centre’s Governance Advisors. He is also one of the senior team within the King’s Centre for Military Health Research and a principal investigator within a nationally funded Health Protection Research unit. He is the current presidential lead for Trauma and the Military at the Royal College of Psychiatrists. He has a longstanding interest in occupational mental health and has chaired the Royal College’s Special Interest Group in Occupational Psychiatry and led the World Psychiatric Association’s position statement on mental health in the workplace. Neil has published more than 350 scientific papers and book chapters. He is a past Secretary of the European Society for Traumatic Stress Studies, past President of the UK Psychological Trauma Society and has been a Specialist Advisor to the House of Commons Defence Select Committee. Neil also is a trustee with the Society and Faculty of Occupational Medicine and is part of NHS England’s expert reference group on staff wellbeing.

Chair: Professor Gail Kinman

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