See page 766 The meta-analysis by Arnold van Emmerik and colleagues in today's Lancet about the efficacy of post-trauma psychological debriefing stands among the more potent entries in an increasing litany of reports, reviews, and consensus statements. The latest report raises significant concerns about this ubiquitous intervention. Despite limitations from poor data-quality and uneven design i...

Healthcare and prehospital workers involved in disaster response are susceptible to a variety of stress-related psychological and physical sequelae. Critical incident stress management, of which critical incident stress debriefing is a component, can mitigate the response to these stressors. Critical incident stress debriefing is a peer-driven, therapist-guided, structured, group intervention d...

A literature review was carried out to establish the extent of the literature on interventions for psychological distress and post-traumatic stress disorder in emergency ambulance personnel. A total of 292 articles were identified. Of these, 10 were relevant to this review. The primary intervention used with this population was critical incident stress debriefing, although there was some debate...

Method In a qualitative study, nurses working in an accident and emergency unit were asked to participate in an interview on the last resuscitation effort that they either participated in or performed themselves. The debriefing that followed this last resuscitation effort was used to explore the quality of the debriefing that the nurses received. With random sampling on the days of the intervie...

The meaningfulness of the current educational landscape, where online learning is heavily practised, often questioned. Experiential focuses on process that learners undergo. It believed to help them make sense through active participation and meaningful reflective practice. Debriefing an experiential strategy requires reflect their experiences connect real-life situations. However, only a limit...

Purpose – The leaving expert (LX) is often regarded only as an issue for the retention of his or her knowledge for the business or organization. The purpose of this paper is to show that a more comprehensive knowledge perspective reveals various issues and leads to different knowledge management (KM) remedies. Design/methodology/approach – The paper approaches the topic from an instruments or p...

Drawing on theory and empirical findings from a 35-year research program in the behavioral sciences on how to improve professional effectiveness through reflective practice, we develop a model of "debriefing with good judgment." The model specifies a rigorous reflection process that helps trainees surface and resolve pressing clinical and behavioral dilemmas raised by the simulation. Based on t...