Critical Incident Stress Debriefing (CISD)

  Critical Incident Stress Debriefing (CISD) is a strategy with apparent therapeutic potential. In fact, it’s frequently used for the prevention of stress-related clinical entities. Some authors consider it to be a form of therapy. However, the method is more of a crisis support strategy than a consolidated psychological treatment protocol. As a matter of fact, this strategy isn’t without criticism because, as you’ll see later, it has the power to feed back stress and increase trauma in people who’ve suffered distressing events. We’re going to explain this technique that was developed in the 70s, by J.T. Mitchel. “Available data…