Tweet  A look at psychological first aid replacing critical incident debriefs. may tell us a bit more about assuming that all not people respond the same way to a given incident – or to a given therapy.  Or maybe they do. From the brilliant blog  Impacted Nurse, quoting in turn from Vaughan Bell at Mind Hacks:

“This technique is now not recommended because we know it is at best useless and probably harmful, owing to the fact that it seems to increase trauma in the long-term.

Instead, we use an approach called psychological first aid, which, instead of encouraging people to talk about all their emotions, really just focuses on making sure people feel secure and connected.  
Psychological first aid is actually remarkable for the fact that it contains so little psychology, as you can see from the just released psychological first aid manual from the World Health Organisation.
You don’t need to be a mental health professional to use the techniques and they largely consist of looking after the practical needs of the person plus working toward making them feel safe and comfortable.

No processing of emotions, no ‘disaster narratives’, no fancy psychology, its really just being practical, gentle and kind.”

Via Mindhacks – Escaping from the past of disaster psychology. As noted above, via Impacted Nurse.