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Health and Safety on Mission: Stress and Substance Abuse
Wednesday 23 June 2010 9:30am EST
Stress plays a unique role in the professional and personal lives of humanitarian workers.The management of intense acute stress allows them to work in situations where others would fail. Stressors come from all aspects of the work, physical discomfort, sharing the tragedy of the situation, distance from support networks, intense responsibility, difficult relationships with clients and co-workers, and often unachievable goals. This seminar attempted to open discussion of the common nature of stressors among humanitarian workers, planning and management of personal stress, and untoward outcomes related to stress such as burn out, relationship dysfunction, and personally destructive behaviors. Through a moderated conversation experts from the field and health care professionals explored the critical aspects of stress and stress management.

Hosts: Stephen Morris, MD, Harvard International Emergency Medicine Fellow and Clinical Instructor Brigham and Women's Hospital at Harvard Medical School, and Claude Bruderlein, Director of the Program on Humanitarian Policy and Conflict Research (HPCR), will facilitate this discussion.

Expert Commentators:
Dr. Donald S. Bosch, Director of Counseling Services at the Headington Institute
John Ehrenreich, PhD, Professor of Psychology, State University of New York, College at Old Westbury

Additional Resources: Antares Foundation, Managing stress in humanitarian workers - Guidelines for Good Practice, 2006.