A guide to psychological debriefing managing emotional decompression and post-traumatic stress disorder - Kinchin, David (Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2007)
Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Introduction to post-traumatic stress -- Introduction to psychological debriefing -- Emotional decompression -- Defusing -- Recovery from post-traumatic stress disorder -- Training for debriefers
'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 & hellip; We should all pay a great deal of attention to w