The recent tragic bus accident in the New South Wales Hunter Valley has again raised the issue of how we address the potential psychological effects of traumatic events. It is interesting we revisit ...

The practice of psychological debriefing can be traced historically to a time when commanders engaged their soldiers in sharing battle experiences. This reporting was believed to lift spirits and ...

Talk it out. That’s the first advice most victims are given in the wake of trauma. Conventional wisdom would suggest that burying one’s emotions after a violent incident — such as a school shooting or ...

The trauma experienced by victims of crime and their families is well documented. Less clear is what happens to jurors who have to sit through months of excruciating testimony to render a verdict in ...

A tailored debriefing process at an Illinois children's hospital provided additional support to staff following critical patient events and contributed to increased levels of compassion satisfaction a ...

TACLOBAN CITY — Psychological debriefing and counseling sessions will be immediately provided to students, teachers, and school personnel of San Jose National High School following a deadly shooting ...

Kent County’s Critical Incident Stress Management team is relatively new, formed in the summer of 2021 by several paramedics. A study conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found ...

A pediatric charge nurse struggled to cope with critical patient events. What resulted is a more effective debriefing process. A charge nurse at a pediatric hospital who struggled to cope with several ...