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Article: Psychological debriefing may not be clinically effective: implications for a humanistic approach to trauma intervention.
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- Journal of Humanistic Counseling, Education and Development
- Article date:
- September 22, 2007
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Formal psychological debriefing in the wake of a traumatic experience seems to have no impact on the development of posttraumatic symptoms. This article addresses whether a more appropriate alternative would be a less-structured, more flexible humanistic approach to crisis counseling that encourages the use of trauma survivors' natural coping skills.
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Crisis intervention counseling is based on the premise that psychological intervention during or in the proximal aftermath of a traumatic experience can help not only to stabilize the client and improve the client's present level of functioning but also to reduce or prevent future psychological ...