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At-Risk Ems Employees- A Model Of Assessment And Intervention.Pdf, Ron J. Hammond, Kate Miller Mar 2019

At-Risk Ems Employees- A Model Of Assessment And Intervention.Pdf, Ron J. Hammond, Kate Miller

Ron J. Hammond

This paper includes data results from a survey of Utah (U.S.) EMS personnel.  Those who reported having already reach a point of wanting to quit the field and having reached a point of wanting to resign their current position were classified as being “At Risk” (N=142) and were compared to those who had not (N=395).  T-Test and ratio analysis indicated that those At Risk were found to have significantly higher incidences of difficult past calls, PTSD-like symptoms, and a variety of personal hardships. Both groups had relatively high indicators of negative impact of working in the EMS field on their …

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Personality Heterogeneity In Ptsd: Distinct Temperamental And Interpersonal Typologies, Katherine M. Thomas, Christopher J. Hopwood, M. Brent Donnellan, Aidan G. C. Wright, Charles A. Sanislow, Meghan E. Mcdevitt-Murphy, Emily B. Ansell, Carlos M. Grilo, Thomas H. Mcglashan, M. Tracie Shea, John C. Markowitz, Andrew E. Skodol, Mary C. Zanarini, Leslie C. Morey Jan 2014

Personality Heterogeneity In Ptsd: Distinct Temperamental And Interpersonal Typologies, Katherine M. Thomas, Christopher J. Hopwood, M. Brent Donnellan, Aidan G. C. Wright, Charles A. Sanislow, Meghan E. Mcdevitt-Murphy, Emily B. Ansell, Carlos M. Grilo, Thomas H. Mcglashan, M. Tracie Shea, John C. Markowitz, Andrew E. Skodol, Mary C. Zanarini, Leslie C. Morey

Charles A. Sanislow, Ph.D.

Researchers examining personality typologies of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) have consistently identified 3 groups: low pathology, internalizing, and externalizing. These groups have been found to predict functional severity and psychiatric comorbidity. In this study, we employed Latent Profile Analysis to compare this previously established typology, grounded in temperament traits (negative emotionality; positive emotionality; constraint), to a novel typology rooted in interpersonal traits (dominance; warmth) in a sample of individuals with PTSD (n = 155). Using Schedule for Nonadaptive and Adaptive Personality (SNAP) traits to create latent profiles, the 3-group temperament model was replicated. Using Interpersonal Circumplex (IPC) traits to create …

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