Training Curriculum

Curriculum


CISM Orientation Cource

The 3-hour orientation course will provide an overview of the CISM program. It will help the attendee know what to expect and how to work with crisis workers responding to the crisis situation. The course will identify the various modes of intervention, spanning from pre-crisis to post-crisis. It will provide information on what defines a critical incident as well as the signs and symptoms of critical incident stress. Additionally, the research, which demonstrates the efficacy of the CISM program in response to critical incidents, will be reviewed.
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CISM: Individual Crisis Intervention

The recommended audience for this class includes emergency services personnel, military, clergy, nurses, HR, EAP, and business/industrial peer support personnel, as well as mental health professionals who desire to increase their knowledge of individual (one-on-one) crisis intervention techniques
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CISM: Strategic Response to Crisis

The recommended audience for this course includes emergency services personnel, community, hospital and industry leaders, military, clergy/chaplains, school crisis team members, mental health professionals, EAP leadership, and others who share in responsibility for emergency response. It is recommended that those attending have taken some core CISM or other crisis intervention courses.
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CISM: Individual Crisis Intervention and Peer Support

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." Crisis interventions are typically done individually (one-on-one) or in groups. This program is designed to teach participants the fundamentals of, and a specific protocol for, individual intervention. The audience for this class includes both emergency services, military, and business/industrial peer support personnel without formal training in mental health, as well as mental health professionals, who desire to increase their knowledge of individual (one-on-one) crisis intervention techniques.
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CISM: Group Crisis Intervention

This 2-day course is designed to teach crisis intervention and emergency mental health skills such as demobilization, defusing, and debriefing. It will provide the core elements of a comprehensive, systematic crisis intervention curriculum.
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CISM: Advanced Group Crisis Intervention

This 2-day course has been developed for EAP, human resources and public safety personnel, mental health professionals, chaplains, paramedics, firefighters, physicians, police officers, nurses, dispatchers, airline personnel and disaster workers who are already trained in critical incident stress debriefing format. It will also be useful for those who are working extensively with traumatized victims from various walks of life
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Pastoral Crisis Intervention

This 2-day course is designed to prepare participants to provide basic crisis intervention services ("psychological first-aid") to individuals in acute crisis using a structured crisis intervention algorithm (SAFER-PCI). The SAFER-PCI represents one element in the integrated multi-componential Critical Incident Stress Management crisis intervention system. It is designed to blend standard psychological interventions with pastoral interventions within a context collectively referred to by Everly (2000) as Pastoral Crisis Intervention (PCI).
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Responding to School Crisis: A Multi-Component Crisis Intervention Approach

This 2-day course attempts to develop a common language and approach that fits within the broad goals and specific needs of school crisis management.
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Suicide Prevention, Intervention, and Postvention

Why do people kill themselves? How do I ask someone if they are feeling suicidal? What do I do if they say they are suicidal? How do I deal with the strong emotions suicide generates? This training will provide answers for these and other questions many of us have about suicide. I will provide you with basic information about suicide as well as help you develop practical skills for prevention, intervention, and postvention. Small group role plays will allow you to apply the suggested techniques as you learn them. We will also develop a short educational briefing about suicide which you can give to your local agencies.
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2006 Best Practices in Critical Incident Response for the Workplace

This course is designed for licensed clinicians who desire to incorporate crisis intervention services in the workplace. Successfully completing this course will enable clinicians to meet Crisis Care Network’s one day on-site training criteria for qualification as a CCN Specialist..  Clinicians must  also hold an advanced degree in the social services and be licensed.
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