Am aware of Gary DeFrai's Scale about Trauma Severity, but none yet measure how effective a CIR intervention itself is. If you don't know of any scales for measure its effectiveness, then do you know of constructs that one might use in building a measurement tool for CIR? Which variables would the field like to measure to prove the intervention was successful in some measure?
Dear Patricia,
Some suggestions:
Conference Paper Emergency management: Capabillity analysis of critical incid...
Conference Paper Public health: emergency management: capability analysis of ...
Article Critical‐incident response: Healing the wounds of traumatic events
Article The Business Case for Workplace Critical Incident Response: ...
Thanks Beatrice..... some of these are older... and I actually know Mark Attridge & Bob Vanderpol..... but their article is a review of the literature and doesn't really address the development of a measurement tool to evaluate the effectiveness of a CIR intervention... and other ideas..... good start...
There are studies on both sides of this issue, if I am correctly interpreting your question about this. Here are a few of the things that come up, though they may not be exactly what you want. If nothing else, they will probably help you to think about what you might like to include in a measurement tool, I have not come across a measurement tool:
Devilly, G.J., gist, R., Cotton, P. (2006). Ready! Fire! Aim! The status of psychological debreifing and therapeutic interventions: In the workplace and after disasters. Review of General Psychology, 10(4), 318-345. doi:1037/1089-2680.10.4.318
Kagee, A. (2002). Concerns about the effectiveness of Critical Incident Stress Debriefing in ameliorating stress reactions. Critical Care, 6(88), 1-2. doi: 10.1186/cc1459
I hope you find this helpful! What you are wanting to do sounds very interesting.
Yes, Ladonna.... thanks a million & yes familiar with these debates... I know the Devilly article but not the Kagee one - will see if I can find it... Much Thanks! Pat
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