A guide to psychological debriefing : managing emotional decompression and post-traumatic stress disorder / David Kinchin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kinchin, David.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Post-traumatic stress disorder.

Crisis intervention (Mental health services).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (138 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; Philadelphia : Jessica Kingsley Publishers, c2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

'David Kinchin pays special attention to setting up optimal conditions to facilitate emotional decompression. He takes into account that trauma reactions, primarily concerned with survival, are whole-system reactions, affecting both the body and mind. He also reminds us that the initial impact of the trauma is on physical structures in the brain, disrupting memory-processing capacity, which is designed to create space and time to heal … We should all pay a great deal of attention to w

Contents:

Cover; Title Page; Contents; FOREWORD BY GORDON TURNBULL; Chapter 1 Introduction to Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder; Chapter 2 Introduction to Psychological Debriefing; Chapter 3 Emotional Decompression; Chapter 4 Defusing; Chapter 5 Recovery from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder; Chapter 6 Training for Debriefers; APPENDIX I: PSYCHOLOGICAL DEBRIEFING - AN EFFECTIVE METHOD?; APPENDIX II: EMOTIONAL DECPOMPRESSION PROMPT CARDS; APPENDIX III: REBEKAH - A PSYCHOLOGICAL DEBRIEFING SESSION; SUBJECT INDEX; AUTHOR INDEX;

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

9786611105624

9781281105622

1281105627

9781846426612

1846426618

9781435602946

1435602943

OCLC:

191925952