Workbook
The Critical Incident Recovery Workbook
Processing What Happened, Who You Were in It, and How You Return
The administrative review is over. This is where you do the other kind.
For the first responder who has been through the formal post-incident process and still carries what it did not reach.
The Name It First Experience
The administrative review is over. The counselor was fine. You are cleared to return. Your Critical Incident Recovery Charter names what the formal process did not reach: what happened, who you were in it, what it cost, and the commitments you are making for the return. The output is not a clearance. It is a charter.
You can opt into 30-, 60-, and 90-day check-ins from your account. We recommend you do — the point is to see what changed.
Sample questions
- What happened — and what are you still carrying from it?
- What has the incident changed about who you are in this work and in your own life?
- What does returning — not just physically, but as yourself — actually look like?
Research basis
Litz et al. moral injury research (perpetrating, failing to prevent, or witnessing acts that violate one's moral code — the primary framework for critical incident moral aftermath in public safety and military) / Figley secondary traumatic stress and compassion fatigue (aftermath of exposure to trauma in the professional role) / Maslach burnout inventory applied to post-incident return to duty (emotional exhaustion and depersonalization as return-to-duty indicators) / Violanti police trauma research / Everly & Mitchell CISM research (critical incident stress debriefing — and its documented limitations as a complete response)
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