Incident Stress Management

When things go wrong, in life or climbing, the outcome is strongly affected by individual responses to stress.  Recognizing, assessing, and managing stress responses in your team are critical leader soft skills.  These pages offer tools for building stress management skills: both during a stressful incident, and recovering after trauma.

A good place to start is the  Critical Incident Stress Management page on the main Mazama site.

Psychological

 First Aid helps us dial down the stress levels during a critical incident, reducing the psychological impact both during and after the incident.

The Stress Continuum helps us understand the nature, depth, and symptoms of post-traumatic stress, and suggests some ways to recover to full psychological health.