TY  - JOUR
PY  - 1993//
TI  - Trauma, crisis intervention and psychological debriefing
JO  - Industrial and environmental crisis quarterly
A1  - Hodgkinson, P. E.
A1  - Stewart, Michael
SP  - 145
EP  - 154
VL  - 7
IS  - 2
N2  - Fifty percent of those involved in catastrophic events will be sufficiently affected to need professional help. The trauma experienced is not simply a set of symptoms (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder), but a major change in the person's "assumptive world", the way the self and the world around it is understood. Crisis intervention must focus on allowing victims to psychologically "process" the events and their reactions by assisting them to build frame works of understanding within which their shattered assumptions and new perceptions of themselves may be ordered. Psychological debriefing is put forward as a model of crisis intervention which facilitates this process. A "Debriefing Continuum" is identified in which three types of debriefing; group, large group, and individual may be placed and contrasted. A sequence of intervention is proposed.<p />
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SN  - 1087-0172
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/108602669300700205
ID  - ref1
ER  -