What is occupational psychological trauma?

As we all know, no matter what profession it is, it has its so-called psychological trauma. Many professions will bring different degrees of psychological trauma to her because of the different nature of the work. When people talk about occupational psychological trauma, these practitioners are powerless to resist and can often only endure it. So what is occupational trauma? Let me introduce it to you today.

Every profession may cause certain psychological trauma to its practitioners due to the nature of its work. But when these traumas hurt you, you can only learn to bear them silently

It is generally believed that police officers should be the toughest and few people think they will be traumatized. In fact, the police profession is the most vulnerable to injury. "Dr. Yi Chunli from the Department of Psychology at Peking University said that in foreign countries, police officers are frequent clients of psychological counseling. Because they are constantly exposed to this kind of psychological trauma,

Every profession will bring more or less psychological trauma to the people doing this work due to the particularity of the work. However, when practitioners in some high-risk occupations experience anxiety, boredom, depression, or even insomnia and nightmares due to various reasons, they should be alert that occupational psychological trauma is hurting them unknowingly.

For some special occupations, the particularity of their working environment, nature of work and service objects has an immeasurable impact on the psychology of practitioners. Experts point out that medical staff in emergency departments, psychologists, journalists reporting on disasters, war correspondents, etc. are all susceptible to occupational psychological trauma, and the occupations they are engaged in are all high-risk psychological occupations.

For example, people in high-risk occupations such as police, medical workers, journalists and soldiers have higher levels of psychological trauma, but are often the most easily overlooked. The psychological trauma of these practitioners mainly manifests itself in anxiety, panic, insomnia, cowardice, loss of creativity, etc.

For example, in the Dover smuggling case, 60 Chinese illegal immigrants were crammed into a truck and intended to be smuggled into the UK. On the way, 58 people suffocated to death because the truck's only ventilation port was closed. Although the only two survivors in the car survived, they were the most direct victims (called primary victims), the victims' families were indirect victims (called secondary victims), and all the police officers who witnessed the tragedy were third-level victims. These border police officers suddenly experienced a tragedy without any psychological preparation, and they suffered nightmares every day after the tragedy. In this case, if psychological counseling is not carried out in time, these psychological traumas may be suppressed and symptoms may gradually appear. Therefore, these police officers absolutely need trauma counseling.

Once a colleague dies, it will have a psychological impact on the comrades around him. People who have suffered psychological trauma often have poor sleep, lack interpersonal security, and distrust others, but they themselves do not know why and even work with symptoms.

To this end, the Ministry of Public Security has begun to implement a "mandatory vacation" system across the country, a regular physical examination system, a physical exercise standard system, and an education and training system centered on maintaining personal safety. It is also negotiating with relevant departments to establish an insurance system for police officers' injuries and deaths on duty.

Through the above introduction, I believe everyone has a certain understanding of occupational psychological trauma. In fact, everyone knows that many occupations belong to vulnerable groups and when practitioners in these occupations suffer psychological trauma. Psychological counseling is very necessary. Caring about their mental health has attracted people's attention.