Schools, very often, choose to offer psychological treatments to those who have suffered a traumatic event from single-session intervention to group therapy.

However, Magdalena Szumilas who is the MD of Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia says that a psychological debriefing actually makes one re-live the trauma hence causing more harm than good.

She and her colleagues put across this view in a Canadian Medical Association Journal commentary. They wrote that debriefing has not proved to prevent post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in adults, and in some cases the risk of disorder actually increases.

Louis Kraus, MD, chief of child psychiatry at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago and a spokesperson for the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (AACAP) said, "It's a false notion to think that simply interviewing a child and having them talk about the trauma and open up about it in a single session is necessarily going to be helpful."

He added that parents should be notified about the event and asked to be involved in the monitoring of their children’s behavior.