Citation

Doucet C, Joubrel D, Cremniter D. Ann. Med. Psychol. (Paris) 2013; 171(6): 399-404.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2013, Societe Medico-Psychologique, Publisher Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/j.amp.2013.04.012

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

OBJECTIVES: Group psychological debriefings belong to the various ways of treating mental trauma.

METHODological and temporal structuring of group psychological debriefings is likely to highlight subjective impacts along with the evolution of the psychodynamic functioning which has been damaged by the tragic event. This contribution presents the clinical and psychopathological analysis of twenty group psychological debriefings made by the medical and psychological emergency unit of Ile-et-Vilaine (Bretagne region, France) following sudden deaths.

METHOD: This study goes by the 20 "intervention reports" which have been systematically written by the unit workers after each debriefing. These documents mention: the nature of the request, the number of the group psychological debriefings made for each event, the number of persons taking part of the group, the themes brought up during the debriefing development, the presence of symptoms following the event, the offer of individual consultations to some participants, the debriefing length and its subsequently possible continuation. The twenty analysed debriefings have been put in place following fourteen different events (10 suicides, three sudden deaths, an accident on the public highway), considering that several debriefings might have been organized for one same situation. The results show: © 2013.

Language: fr

Keywords

Trauma; human; suicide; psychotherapy; France; traffic accident; workplace; article; mental disease; symptomatology; consultation; psychologic assessment; psychodynamics; emergency ward; mental stress; sudden death; medical assessment; perception; mental function; treatment duration; Group debriefing; group psychological debriefing; Mental work; postimmediate intervention; Psychopathological reactions; Trauma syndrome