managing emotional decompression and post-traumatic stress disorder /
First Statement of Responsibility
David Kinchin ; foreword by Gordon Turnbull.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
Philadelphia :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Jessica Kingsley Publishers,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2007.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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1 online resource (136 pages) :
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illustrations
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
CONTENTS NOTE
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Introduction to post-traumatic stress -- Introduction to psychological debriefing -- Emotional decompression -- Defusing -- Recovery from post-traumatic stress disorder -- Training for debriefers.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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'David Kinchin pays special attention to setting up optimal conditions to facilitate emotional decompression. He takes into account that trauma reactions, primarily concerned with survival, are whole-system reactions, affecting both the body and mind. He also reminds us that the initial impact of the trauma is on physical structures in the brain, disrupting memory-processing capacity, which is designed to create space and time to heal ... We should all pay a great deal of attention to w.