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Friday, September 06, 2002They covered critical incident stress debriefing (CISD), usually a one-off three-hour, group therapy session for trauma victims. (Note: I think that’s supposed to be “one to three hour” not “one-off three-hour”) Others looked at different methods of debriefing and how people fared who had no counselling. It was found that symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder improved with non-CISD interventions and with no intervention at all. However CISD did not have any such positive effect. There was also no evidence it improved recovery from other trauma-related disorders. The study was one of those dreaded meta-analyses, but I've always wondered how effective those crisis-moment counseling sessions were. They always struck me as annoying and obnoxious in their assumption that anyone could salve psychic wounds in such a short time. CORRECTION: The phrase used by the BBC to describe one-shot debriefing wasn't a typo after all. A reader who knows put me right: "one-off is a Britishism that means single or one-time." posted by Sydney on 9/06/2002 06:05:00 AM 0 comments 0 Comments: |
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