The importance of parallel process in debriefing crisis counsellors

✍ Scribed by Alison Talbot

• Book ID: 102925719
• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 1990
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 758 KB
• Volume: 3
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0894-9867
• DOI: 10.1002/jts.2490030208

✦ Synopsis

This article extends the idea of parallel process from the therapeutic situation to crisis circumstances where similar processes can occur. Parallel processes have a particular relevance in a crisis since critical incidents tend to raise the emotional climate of the counseling situation. The processes that occur with a group of victims in the aftermath of a crisis can be reenacted between counsellors working with the victims and this has implications for clinical work. As example of such a situation is discussed as are the ramifications for the debriefing of counsellors.