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Several
years ago, The American Academy of Experts in
Traumatic Stress introduced Trauma Response®
Infosheets. These single page documents, featuring
practical information for survivors and professionals,
were disseminated around the world through the
utilization of different media. The Academy
printed thousands of these elegant handouts,
offered them through our automated fax-back
system, and shared them through our award-winning
website on the Internet. Due to frequent requests
for information related to traumatic stress,
the Academy¹s Executive Board has elected
to expand our collection of Infosheets to develop
an extensive library of practical information.
Today, I am calling upon our membership to help
us with this endeavor. The Academy is looking
for documents that reflect your specific area
of interest and expertise. We encourage you
to draw from your existing workthough new documents
would certainly be considered. There is no ³model²
for these Infosheets and they may be presented
in a variety of ways. For example, information
can be offered as a summary, or perhaps as a
practical checklist. Most important is that
the Infosheets are truly practical documents
that convey the eclectic flavor of our multidisciplinary
membership. The following are examples that
reflect the diversity of topics that may be
addressed:
- An Overview of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
- Helping Survivors of Sexual Abuse
- Managing Dental Anxiety & Fear
- Critical Information About Death Notification
- Sports Injury & Traumatic Stress
- Bereavement Counseling
- Helping Survivors of Disasters
- An Overview of Critical Incident Stress
Management
- A Checklist of Indicators of Suicide Potential
- Crisis Intervention Strategies for Teachers
- The Psychological Impact of Burns
- Counseling with the Terminally Ill
- Managing Trauma in the Workplace
- A Practical Checklist for School Crisis
Response
These Trauma Response®
Infosheets will be printed as colorful handouts
and distributed as a public service of the Academy.
Additionally, as in the past, they will be offered
through our automated fax-back system and shared
throughout the world through our award-winning
website on the nternetwww.traumatic-stress.org.
This is a tremendous opportunity for the Academy
to increase awareness of the effects of trauma
and, ultimately, to improve the quality of intervention
with survivorsour association¹s mission!
This is also a wonderful opportunity for you,
our membership, to share your unique perspective.
Infosheets will be limited to one page, front
and back. They will include a beautiful masthead,
title, author, author¹s organization/practice
address, author¹s telephone/e-mail contact
numbers, and a document limited to two sides
of a page. The Academy will grant permission
for reproduction of our Infosheets in their
original form.
Infosheet submissions may be e-mailed to the
Academy¹s administrative offices at aaets@optonline.net.
If replying by e-mail, please paste the document
within your e-mail text writer, or forward it
as an attachment in text form. If you prefer,
you can mail your submission to our administrative
offices. Please enclose a hard copy along with
the document on a floppy disk.
Trauma Response® Infosheets offer an invaluable
opportunity to bring our expertise to the world.
Today, The American Academy of Experts in Traumatic
Stress can speak proudly of a rapidly growing
multidisciplinary membership represented by
individuals from over 200 professions in the
health-related fields, emergency services, criminal
justice, forensics, law, business and education.
With members in every state of the United States
and over 40 foreign countries, the Academy is
the largest organization of its kind in the
world.
Having a highly diverse, eclectic group of individuals
under one umbrella offers a unique opportunity
for us to network and share our ideas. May our
growing collection of Trauma Response® Infosheets
provide truly practical information that will
ultimately help many survivors of trauma.
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