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Conference 2005
Keynote speakers
Jo Rick
Trauma at work: new evidence on debriefing
Summary
Throughout the UK ‘debriefing’ in its various forms is
routinely used to reduce the psychological consequences for those exposed
directly to, or working in the aftermath of, traumatic or upsetting
incidents. This is despite the fact that debriefing is a subject that
continues to spark fierce debate and opinion remains divided over whether
it is a help or a harm to recipients.
This paper presents new findings
from a workplace study comparing different approaches to trauma management
and considers the implications for
how organisations should respond to traumatic incidents at work. It
also explores some of the issues around evidence-based approaches that
divide practitioners and researchers and assesses the prospects for
moving towards a future consensus.
Biography
Dr Jo Rick is a chartered occupational psychologist and an associate
fellow of the British Psychological Society. Jo has spent the last
15 years conducting research in the area of psychological health and
work. Jo currently works at the Institute of Work Psychology at Sheffield
University where she manages a programme of research into workplace
mental health. Her main interests are in the management of trauma in
the workplace, work and well being and work-life balance. Jo has published
widely on the impact of work on well being. She regularly presents
at conferences.
Mark Brayne
Journalism and Trauma – tackling the macho culture
Summary
Journalists are probably the last of the first-responder professions
to trauma to take on board the damage that repeated exposure to emotional
distress can do to them. Journalism training has traditionally emphasised
the importance of emotional detachment – but journalists are
human beings too, and they hurt. Now, the macho culture is beginning
to change. The terrible journalistic death toll of the Iraq war can
leave no one with any illusions about the physical dangers of their
trade. At the BBC, Reuters, NBC and many other companies, training
is now being piloted to give managers and editors as well as individuals
the tools they need to cope with emotional trauma. In this, they’re
being supported by the Dart Centre for Journalism and Trauma, whose
European director Mark Brayne was for many years a foreign correspondent
for the BBC and Reuters. He’s now a psychotherapist as well,
and will introduce to the conference the new trauma support models
he’s developing with the Dart Centre and the BBC.
Biography
Mark Brayne served for 30 years as foreign correspondent
and senior editor for Reuters and the BBC World Service, and is Director
Europe
for the Dart Centre for Journalism and Trauma. He is also working
with the BBC on a new programme of trauma training and support for
journalists
and programme.
Mark Brayne hung up his reporter’s boots in 1992,
and while continuing to work as a senior editor with the European language
programmes of
the BBC in London, he trained in his spare time as a transpersonal
psychotherapist, graduating in 2000 with a Master’s degree in
the personal experience of the foreign correspondent.
He left BBC staff
after 25 years service in November 2003 to pursue his work as a psychotherapist,
and as a trainer and consultant in the
field of journalism and trauma.
Lisa Potts
Lisa Potts received the George Medal for her heroic actions
protecting pupils at a nursery school from a machete-wielding attacker.
She has
since become an author and counsellor. Lisa now divides her time between
looking after son Alfie and will return to SureStart after maternity
leave where she will work in the community counselling families and
continuing her work with her charity Believe 2 Achieve.
Lisa is delighted
to be a keynote speaker and will speak about her own personal experience.
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