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Resource Guide to Critical Incident Stress and Debriefing in Human Service Agencies
Publication year:
1997
| Cataloged on:
Oct. 31, 2006
ANNOTATION: A ?learning tool for non-governmental organizations...wishing to apply critical incident stress management approaches and techniques? is provided (p. iii). Four sections comprise this manual: understanding critical incident stress; principles of critical incident stress management; dealing with critical incident stress in the workplace; and models of debriefing services. Attachments included are: assessment and establishment of debriefing; useful questions for coordinators--assessment of the incident; assessing the need for defusing and debriefing; planning debriefing sessions; summary of demobilization, defusing, and debriefing; description of critical incident stress; signs and symptoms of critical incident stress; description of traumatic stress; symptoms of traumatic stress; typical roles/responsibilities of coordinators (staff debriefing model); and glossary.