Overview
Create a fake interview with a paramedic male age 40
Conduct at least a 15-minute interview with your selected individual. You are encouraged to ask the following questions during your interview:
- How would you describe your job?
- What are some of the challenges you face as a part of your job? Did you expect these challenges?
- What on the job experiences have had /a lasting influence on you?
- How do you deal with the stressors of your job?
- Have you ever considered seeing a counselor? If so, did you? If not, why not?
- Does your department have an in-house counselor or EAP program available to its employees? Would you consider using them for counseling? Why or why not?
- Do you feel supported by your community? If so how? If not, why not? What is the role of culture in this experience of support?
Prepare a 750-1,000- word reflection on your interview in which you address the following:
- Provide an overview of your interview; however, please maintain any confidentiality expectations that were communicated by the individual or the department the individual works for.
- Explain how your experience reinforced or changed your perspective on firefighters and EMT/paramedics.
- Use specific examples from your interview to evaluate the role of first responders and how this role leads to unique job stressors.
- Explain issues inherent to providing counseling to emergency response personnel using specific examples and insight from your interviews. Be sure to discuss cultural identities and values, gender, ethnicity, etc.
- Describe additional insight that the experience provided you about effectively counseling emergency response personnel, including the influence of firefighter and EMT/Paramedic culture and community perspective.