title: The Assaulted Staff Action Program (ASAP): ten year empirical support for critical incident stress management (CISM).
abstract: Critical Incident Stress Management (CISM) refers to an integrated comprehensive, multicomponent, crisis intervention approach for addressing the psychological aftermath of critical incidents. It includes pre-incident training, acute crisis intervention, and post-incident responses. The Assaulted Staff Action Program (ASAP) is a voluntary, system-wide, peer-help, crisis intervention program for staff victims of patient assaults. ASAP is a CISM approach, and this paper evaluated fourteen empirical studies of ASAP to assess the empirical justification for ASAP and CISM approaches, which demonstrated a 25%-62% reduction in staff assaults.
authors.affiliation: Department of Mental Health, 25 Staniford Street, Boston, MA 02114, USA.
authors.forename: R B
authors.initials: RB
authors.lastname: Flannery
mesh_terms: D003419:Crisis Intervention / Q000379:methods*; D005260:Female; D006282:Health Personnel / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009786:Occupational Health Services / Q000458:organization & administration*; D010361:Patients / Q000523:psychology*; D011369:Professional-Patient Relations; D015397:Program Evaluation; D013313:Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic / Q000517:prevention & control*; D013997:Time Factors; D014481:United States; D014754:Violence / Q000517:prevention & control*