Critical Incident debriefing (CID)

Critical Incident Debriefing is an effective process to help normalise the often overwhelming psychological and emotional responses to minor, moderate and severe critical incidents. If you have staff or volunteers who have been through a crisis or trauma they may feel anxious, angry, scared, or even guilty. They might have trouble with sleep or start to loose focus with their work, or become physically ill. A critical incident debrief can help them recover, build confidence, reduce stress and help with grounding.

Normally facilitated as group sessions debriefs provide a chance for everyone to talk about the trauma with others who were involved. Recognising the huge impacts of critical incidents on your employees’ levels of distress as well as the impacts that it may have on them being able to perform their role effectively or attend work.  Critical Incident debriefing is designed to enhance your employees’ natural resilience and provide specialist support to minimise the impacts of trauma and promote wellbeing and recovery.

Debriefing is best to be facilitated two to three days following the traumatic event and would normally last around two hours. Debriefing is now recommended as standard practice in many schools, workplaces and government organisations. For example, people witnessing or experiencing workplace- or school-based violence will often receive a debriefing intervention. Often sufficient to make difference themselves, debriefs can also be helpful to allow for signposting of staff to other interventions to help with the trauma recovery if needed.

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