Interventions included psycho - educational strategies, cognitive behavioural therapies (CBT), interpersonal psychotherapies, non-directive counselling,
psychological debriefing and social support, delivered by telephone, in home visits or group sessions, by professional or lay person.
Early single - session psychological interventions, including
psychological debriefing following trauma, have not been shown to reduce psychological distress.
Psychological debriefing (PD) is not recommended after trauma exposure (13,37,38).
Psychological debriefing will substantially reduce the likelihood of your employees suffering from post traumatic stress syndrome and is more effective if it is completed with 24 hours of the incident.
«While there is evidence to support treatments for patients with active psychiatric disorders, interventions such as psychological first aid,
psychological debriefing, crisis counseling, and psychoeducation for distressed individuals have not been adequately evaluated to determine whether they help or hurt in disaster settings.»
Conduct
a psychological debrief: Once your employee has been repatriated insist on the employee and family completing
a psychological debrief.
Not exact matches
The Changing Mental Health Aftermath of 9/11 —
Psychological «First Aid» Gains Favor over
Debriefings
Review: a brief
psychological intervention (
debriefing) is ineffective in preventing post-traumatic stress disorder
One review (Gamble et al., 2002) concludes that a one - off
debriefing session is not effective in reducing
psychological morbidity in women who have experienced a traumatic childbirth, and may even be harmful.