The practice of psychological debriefing can be traced historically to a time when commanders engaged their soldiers in sharing battle experiences. This reporting was believed to lift spirits and ...

The trauma experienced by victims of crime and their families is well documented. Less clear is what happens to jurors who have to sit through months of excruciating testimony to render a verdict in ...

Talk it out. That’s the first advice most victims are given in the wake of trauma. Conventional wisdom would suggest that burying one’s emotions after a violent incident — such as a school shooting or ...

A tailored debriefing process at an Illinois children's hospital provided additional support to staff following critical patient events and contributed to increased levels of compassion satisfaction a ...

The accumulation of stress from fires, EMS calls, motor vehicle accidents and other emergencies often leads to chronic anxiety among firefighters. Certain emergency calls— for example, a firefighter ...

A pediatric charge nurse struggled to cope with critical patient events. What resulted is a more effective debriefing process. A charge nurse at a pediatric hospital who struggled to cope with several ...