Dealing with disasters: does psychological debriefing work?
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Dealing with disasters: does psychological debriefing work?
The psychological aftermath of disaster causes significant long-term psychiatric disability and suffering to victims and rescuers alike. This paper examines the effectiveness of psychological debriefing (PD), an early intervention that is widely used and claimed to reduce long-term psychiatric morbidity in the wake of disaster. Numerous factors hamper the design of methodologically sound resear...
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عنوان ژورنال: Emergency Medicine Journal
سال: 1995
ISSN: 1472-0205,1472-0213
DOI: 10.1136/emj.12.4.255