title: Air Force Critical Incident Stress Management outreach with Pentagon staff after the terrorist attack.
abstract: This article describes the Critical Incident Stress Management outreach to Pentagon staff conducted after the terrorist attack by a team of Air Force mental health and chaplain personnel. Also discussed are lessons learned from the author's experience while leading the mental health component and working in a larger tri-service outreach. Finally, the observed impacts of the outreach effort are examined along with recommendations for future postcritical incident outreach efforts.
mesh_terms: D000401:Aircraft; D002977:Clergy; D003419:Crisis Intervention / Q000379:methods / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D008887:Military Medicine / Q000379:methods / Q000458:organization & administration*; D008889:Military Personnel / Q000523:psychology*; D013313:Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic / Q000628:therapy; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000628:therapy*; D023481:Terrorism / Q000523:psychology*; D014481:United States; D014768:Virginia