Effectiveness on mental health of psychological debriefing for crisis intervention in schools

Educational Psychology Review

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 339-347

  Wei, Yifeng ^a   Szumilas, Magdalena ^a   Kutcher, Stan ^a,b  

^a IWK HEALTH CENTRE   (Canada)

^b WHO Collaborating Centre   (Canada)

Author keywords

Crisis intervention; Critical incident stress debriefing (CISD); Critical incident stress management (CISM); Psychological debriefing; School

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956435570     PISSN: 1040726X     EISSN: 1573336X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10648-010-9139-2     Document Type: Review

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