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Critical Incident Stress Management with inmates: an atypical application
1Centerstone Community Mental Health Centers, Inc., Nashville, TN, USA.
International Journal of Emergency Mental Health
|May 25, 2002
Abstract:
In March 2001, Centerstone Community Mental Health Centers, Inc.'s CISM Team was asked to debrief 14 inmates after a murder in a rural county jail. We had no specific experience providing CISM in this particular setting, so we contacted ICISF and local law enforcement personnel for their input. We found that neither had a significant amount of experience with this population. In general, although our Team found significant differences related to the restrictions inherent in the environmental setting and the overall group dynamic, we also found similarities in the general manner in which the CISM model was utilized.