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  • 22 - Concerns about debriefing: challenging the mainstream

  • from Part IV - Debriefing overview and future directions
  • Edited by Beverley Raphael, New South Wales Health Department, Sydney, John Wilson, Cleveland State University
  • Book:
    Psychological Debriefing
    Published online:
    06 January 2010
    Print publication:
    12 October 2000, pp 305-320

  • Summary

    Psychological debriefing after disastrous events has become a widespread and popular trend over the past 15 years. When debriefing resulted in large numbers of workers' compensation, payments and insurance or civil claims, the modality was rejected by the police administrators who perceived it as instigating malingering and secondary gain. By using standardized context-free formats, the debriefer is actually helping to co-construct experience by directing the narrative according to a predetermined set of concerns. The debrief process fails to recognize that the reflective approach it requires only adds to the fears and frustration of traumatically impaired individuals, who may become anxious, confused, or shut down in the debriefing process. Debriefings have in many instances become mandatory mental health treatment programmes. By adopting the salutogenic model, many of the issues outlined by emergency workers become eliminated.