This article looks at the stresses inherent in crisis intervention work in general, and on the effects on psychologkts in particular. The authors review debriefing strategies currently used and argue that the needs of psychologists differ from those of other crisis interveners such as police or ambulance workers. They present a debriefing strategy that takes into account the psychologist 3 need for psychological understanding and integration.
KEY WORDS debriefing; crisis; victims: crisis intervention.45 0694-9867,9&Q1000W5SMSOlO 0 1992 Plenum Publishing Corporation
Samples of verbal behaviour were collected from 32 successful students and 35 hospitalized psychiatric patients in order to asses the applicability of the Gottschalk-Gleser Content Analysis Scales in Australia. Estimates of interjudge reliability and criterion groups validity resulted in acceptable findings for the Anxiety and Schizophrenic scales, and for the indices of hostility with the exception of Hostility Outward. Discriminant validity of the scales was successfully demonstrated for the student sample only. Comparisons of the data with American norms yielded significantly higher Hostility Inward scores for both Australian samples.
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