Crash & Event​

Mental dysfunction that may result when an individual lives through or witnesses an event in which he or she believes that there is a threat [...]

A deep psychological injury or shock resulting from an extremely stressful, terrifying, or jarring event that exceeds the individual's capacity to cope emotionally. May stem [...]

Temperament refers to the biologically based individual differences in emotional, attentional, and behavioral reactivity and self-regulation that are evident early in life, are relatively stable [...]

Severity is a method of describing the acuity of injuries suffered by a casualty involved in a crash. Source: https://wiki.roadsafetyanalysis.org/wiki/index.php?title=KSI#The_term_KSI

Secondary Traumatic Stress Disorder (STSD) refers to the development of PTSD-like symptoms in individuals who are indirectly exposed to trauma, typically through close contact with [...]

Units that arrive at accident scenes: e.g. paramedics, firefighters, police, search and rescue. Source: See Schulz & Griffin (American Journal of Psychiatry, 1997); systematic review [...]

A person who takes part in or becomes involved in a particular activity (1). When specifically referring to road traffic crashes, it is a person [...]

A result or effect of an action, situation, etc. (1) In the context of the IMPROVA project, to describe what happens to the victims of [...]

Immediate psychological and medical care provided at the scene of an accident/crash—includes psychological first aid and critical incident stress debriefing for emergency responders and bystanders. [...]

Refer to the outcomes of a road traffic crash, immediate or after an extended period of time, and can be physical, psychological, social, economic, or [...]