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Resilience in Emergency Medical Responders: A Pilot Study of a Reflective Journal Intervention Using a Mixed Methods Approach

Journal of European Psychology Students
Volume 6 (2015): Issue 2
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Open Access
|Jul 2015
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Figures & Tables

Figure 1

Structure of group and testing design. R = Resilience Measurement.

Personal competence – This refers to setting own standards at work and trying constantly to meet them
Example questions to help you write about this topic:

  1. What difficulties or challenges did you face since your last entry? What personal skills or abilities did you use to overcome those difficulties?

  2. What part of your job did you do well over the last days?

  3. What did you achieve at work over the last days?

Dealing with pressure – The strategies you use to cope with the pressure and stress at work
Example questions to help you write about this topic:

  1. Did you feel some unpleasant or painful feelings at work like sadness, fear, or anger since your last entry? How did you handle those feelings?

  2. How did you cope with stress over the last working days?

  3. Did anything funny happen at work since your last entry? Was it helpful to deal with pressure or stress?

Adapting to change – Accepting change as a positive part of your work rather than as a negative part of your work
Example questions to help you write about this topic:

  1. How do you feel that your working day is never the same two days running?

  2. How did you cope with changes imposed on you during your working day in the last days?

  3. What changes happened over your last working days? How do you feel about them?

Social support – Having support from your social network (e.g., family, friends, colleagues)
Example questions to help you write about this topic:

  1. Do you feel that you had enough social support since your last entry?

  2. Would you like to have more support? If yes, what kind of support do you wish/ what would be helpful?

  3. Do you feel that the support you got over your last working days was helpful in reducing any stress you experienced at work?

Control – How much control you would like to have at work and how you feel when you may not have as much control as you would wish
Example questions to help you write about this topic:

  1. Were there any situations at work since your last entry when you felt that you are losing control of the situation?

  2. What did you do to keep in control of these situations?

  3. How did you feel when you had less control at work?

Making meaning – Finding the meaning of your experiences at work. This can relate to your spiritual or religious influences
Example questions to help you write about this topic:

  1. Did you have the feeling that things happen for a reason?

  2. Did you have any spiritual or religious feelings or experiences since your last entry? If yes, please describe them.

  3. Did they help you with your experiences at work over the last days?

  4. Do you feel that your spirituality helped you cope in work in any way? If so, how?

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/jeps.cw | Journal eISSN: 2222-6931
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Language: English
Page range: 79 - 84
Published on: Jul 22, 2015
Published by: Ubiquity Press
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Keywords:
resilience,
trauma,
emergency responders,
intervention,
journaling

© 2015 Gail Rowntree, Sarah Atayero, Melanie Diem O´Connell, Martina Hoffmann, Ashna Jassi, Vytautas Narusevicius, Dimosthenis Tsapekos, published by Ubiquity Press
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

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