title: Psychiatric stress debriefing. Alleviating the impact of patient suicide and assault.
abstract: Psychiatrists and psychologists have developed the psychological autopsy into a debriefing tool, as well as a learning tool. Use of the CISD has been an effective protocol to help police, fire, ambulance, emergency room, and ICU personnel cope with the effects of violence and trauma. Psychiatric nurses and ancillary personnel also face frequent exposure to violence and trauma. The psychiatric debriefing protocol offers a practical intervention.
authors.affiliation: Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Cooper
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D003419:Crisis Intervention; D006117:Grief; D006778:Hospitals, Psychiatric; D006801:Humans; D009723:Nurse-Patient Relations; D011568:Psychiatric Nursing; D013405:Suicide / Q000523:psychology*; D014754:Violence / Q000523:psychology*