Critical Incident Stress Management - Individual and Group Crisis Training

International Critical Incident Stress Foundation (ICISF)

Peer to Peer Training

Individual Crisis Intervention – Course Description
Crisis Intervention is NOT psychotherapy; rather, it is a specialized acute emergency mental health intervention which requires specialized training. As physical first aid is to surgery, crisis intervention is to psychotherapy. Thus, crisis intervention is sometimes called “emotional first aid”. This program is designed to teach participants the fundamentals of, and a specific protocol for, individual crisis intervention. This course is designed for anyone who desires to increase their knowledge of individual (one-on-one) crisis intervention techniques in the fields of Business & Industry, Crisis Intervention, Disaster Response, Education, Emergency Services, Employee Assistance, Healthcare, Homeland Security, Mental Health, Military, Spiritual Care, and Traumatic Stress.

Program Highlights

· Psychological crisis and psychological crisis intervention

· Resistance, resiliency, recovery continuum

· Critical incident stress management

· Evidence-based practice

· Basic crisis communication techniques

· Common psychological and behavioral crisis reactions

· Putative and empirically-derived mechanisms

· SAFER-Revised model

· Suicide intervention – QPR (question, persuade and refer)

Group Crisis Intervention – Course Description

Designed to present the core elements of a comprehensive, systematic and multi-component crisis intervention curriculum, the Group Crisis Intervention course will prepare participants to understand a wide range of crisis intervention services. Fundamentals of Critical Incident Stress Management (CISM) will be outlined and participants will leave with the knowledge and tools to provide several group crisis interventions, specifically, demobilizations, defusing’s, and the Critical Incident Stress Debriefing (CISD). The need for appropriate follow-up services and referrals when necessary will also be discussed.

This course is designed for anyone in the fields of Business & Industry Crisis Intervention, Disaster Response, Education, Indigenous Communities, Emergency Services, Employee Assistance, Healthcare, Homeland Security, Mental Health, Military, Spiritual Care, and Traumatic Stress.

Program Highlights

· Incident assessment and Reducing risks

· Strategic intervention planning

· “Resistance, resilience, recovery” continuum

· Debriefings

· Small group crisis interventions - Defusing

Healing Circles

*Upon successfully completing training, you will receive Continuing Education Credits.

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

T6X 0X2, T6X 0X2, Edmonton, Canada