Are Flight Attendants First Responders?
February 15, 2007 ICISF Ninth World Congress on Traumatic Stress Conference By Heather Healy, AFA-CWA EAP Director | Edited by Darren Shiroma As our world changes, so does our vocabulary. Every year, new words are added to our speech. Some of these terms become entries in dictionaries if they gain enough popularity. These are called neologisms. Neologisms are words, terms or phrases that have been created to apply to a new concept, or to reshape an older term in newer language form. Neologisms are especially useful in identifying inventions, new phenomena, or old ideas that have taken on a new cultural context. In current times, many of these words relate to electronics, and high-tech consumer products like iPod, hard drive, software, and flat screens. Neologisms can also relate to actions like: IMing, posting, surfing the net, blogging, and googling. They can relate to incidents or events such as DWIs, a drive-by, suicide bombings, and 9/11. They can even describe organizations and jo
