These findings show that a psychological debriefing following a series of traumatic events or experiences does not appear to reduce subsequent psychiatric morbidity and highlights the need for further research in military and civilian settings.

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SUMMARY: Combat stress reactions may present in many forms. This study presents three cases from the Gulf War which illustrate the diversity of presentation and demonstrate the ways in which the principles of the management of Combat Stress Reactions -Proximity, Immediacy and Expectancy -can be combined with specific individual therapies.

SUMMARY: The objective of this study was to determine the prevalence and degree of distress among military personnel following their experiences during Operation Orderly in London District. A questionnaire was distributed at the end of the deployment which enquired about distressing experiences. The General Health Questionnaire (GHQ-28) and the Impact of Event Scale (lES) were included to provide an objective measure of the distress. Thirty two per cent of respondents admitted to distressing experiences, of these a subgroup (20.5 %) who were more severely distressed welcomed the opportunity to discuss their experiences.