Community Oriented Interventions are composed of a number of different elements. Dr. Becker outlined some of the guidelines for working with communities that are responding to a crisis. The roles of debriefing, defusing and other intervention strategies were reviewed. In describing the model for crisis debriefing, Dr. Becker clearly outlined the steps taken. In the introduction, the leader explains the process and tells group members they're there to understand what happened and integrate the impact.
Members talk about their rolls.
Next the Fact vs. Fiction stage attempts to control rumors and identify the persons who will give accurate information. Here people tell their stories and people are encouraged to think about the incident and to talk about the experience, where they were at the time, etc. Coping intervention might be on a physical or a cognitive level, depending upon how the individual is effected by the trauma. For example if they are stuck in a sensory experience, they might be given a different sensory experience. Next, Review and Teach explains PTSD and the leader reassures the group that they are experiencing normal reaction to abnormal events.