Bernhard Mann
Emergency personnel are constantly exposed to traumatic experiences in their work environ-ment. "Emergency personnel" means any persons, paid or volunteer, who receive calls for dispatch of police, fire, or emergency medical service personnel, and includes law-enforcement officers, firefighters, including special forest wardens and emergency medical service personnel (Code of Virginia of the State of Virginia). These experiences cause a high risk for anxiety and other mental disorders. With this research, we want to compare the rele-vance of work environments to the increased risks. I want to review the current coping man-agement protocols used and revise the protocols to establish coping management techniques specific for the need of emergency personnel. We will incorporate the following possibilities: health management and physiology, health psychology and health sociology. This will be an international research project in order to compare different social structures and their ap-proaches to the above mentioned issue and to analyze why some countries have better results with their current coping management protocols. These protocols can be modified and incorporated.