Ready! Fire! Aim! the status of psychological debriefing and therapeutic interventions: In the work place and after disasters

Review of General Psychology

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 318-345

  Devilly, Grant J ^a   Gist, Richard ^b   Cotton, Peter ^a  

^a SWINBURNE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI KANSAS CITY   (United States)

Author keywords

CISD; Critical incident stress debriefing; Debriefing; Early intervention; Evidence based interventions; Resilience; Trauma

Indexed keywords

EID: 33845728644     PISSN: 10892680     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/1089-2680.10.4.318     Document Type: Review

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