• Health Services Administrator Queens Private Correctional Facility
• Mental Health Professional, Nassau County Critical Incident Stress Management Team
• Team Coordinator, NYC REMSCO Critical Incident Response Team

Jason Maffia is the Health Services Administrator at Queens
Private Correctional Facility. Jason holds a Masters Degree in Psychology as
well as the designation of Board Certified Expert in Traumatic Stress,
Diplomat, American Academy of Experts in Traumatic Stress. Mr. Maffia is also
Board Certified in Emergency Crisis Response, Certified in Acute Traumatic
Stress Management and Certified in Health Counseling.

Jason is a mental health professional and team coordinator with the Regional
EMS Council of New York City Critical Incident Response Team, as well as a
mental health professional with the Nassau County Critical Incident Stress
Management Team. As a member of these teams, Jason has provided group and
individual crisis intervention for fire services, EMS and pre hospital care
providers affected by tragedy or disaster.

WORKSHOPS, PRESENTATIONS AND SEMINAR TOPICS AND DESCRIPTIONS

Queens Private Correctional Facility
Critical Incident Stress Management Program and Team Development: Comprehensive
Acute Traumatic Stress Management.
Developed and implemented CISM Program and Trained Staff for CISM Team using
the CATSM model.

ICISF 9th World Congress: The Effectiveness of Critical Incident Stress
Debriefing in the Reduction
This presentation will evaluate the conceptual and theoretical underpinnings of
the effectiveness of critical incident stress debriefing as a means of reducing
psychological morbidity following traumatic exposure.

International Interdisciplinary Conference on Emergencies: An Organizational
Approach to Work Related Traumatic Stress
This presentation adopts an organizational psychological approach to work
related trauma and recovery. It explores the theoretical nature of work-related
traumatic stress and the context within which reactions occur and recovery
takes place. Organizational influences on response are identified and used to
tentatively offer explanations for the effectiveness of debriefing. General
conclusion regarding the implications for intervention effectiveness and
prevention are discussed.

Rocky Mountain Region National Disaster Mental Health Conference
Compassion Fatigue
The emotional aspects of traumatic events are often ignored
in professional helpers who are involved in intervention immediately after and
following a disaster with victims of emotional trauma. There is a growing body
of theoretical and empirical literature that recognizes that engaging in
therapeutic work with trauma survivors can and does impact the professional
involved. It explores a theoretical model that accounts for and predicts the
emergence of compassion stress and compassion fatigue among professionals
working with traumatized people and to explicate the principals associated with
accurate diagnosis, assessment, research, treatment and prevention of compassion
fatigue.

Goodwill Industries of Greater New York and Northern New Jersey
Critical Incident Stress Management Program Development
Acute Traumatic Stress Management.
Trained staff in ATSM Model, Developed CISM Team

PAST ORGANIZATIONAL CONSULTATIONS, TRAINING AND INTERVIEWS

The Jamaica Hospital Medical Center

Goodwill Industries of Greater New York and Northern New Jersey

Queens Private Correctional Facility

AHRC of Nassau County