The Assaulted Staff Action Program: Coping with the Psychological Aftermath of Violence

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As the level of violence has increased, many organizations have had the desire to create their own in-house peer-help victim debriefing team. The Assaulted Staff Action Program (ASAP) addresses this need. ASAP is a voluntary, peer-help, systems-wide, crisis intervention approach for coping with the psychological aftermath of violence. ASAP is a critical incident stress management approach that includes individual crisis counseling, large group debriefings, an employee victims' support group, employee-victim family out reach, and professional referrals when needed. ASAP is associated with providing needed support to employee victims and sharp reductions in the frequency of violence in many of the facilities where it is fielded. ASAP programs pay for themselves by means of sustained productivity, less medical and legal expense, and reduced human suffering. This book is a step-by-step manual that shows your organization how to design and field an ASAP program for its needs. The theory, the steps for design, and all of the forms necessary for implementation are included.