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Critical Incident Stress Management

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Critical Incident Stress Management (CISM) is a process created to equip participants to provide basic, initial care for people who have experienced a critical incident. It is a form of “psychological or emotional first aid” designed to begin helping individuals cope better with the incident on a one-on-one basis. CISM is NOT psychotherapy or a substitute for psychotherapy but rather a specialized, acute, emergency mental health intervention that follows specific protocols and requires specialized training. 

 

These techniques are helpful in the fields of:

• Business & Industry

• Crisis Intervention

• Disaster Response

• Education

• Emergency Services

• Employee Assistance

• Healthcare

• Homeland Security

• Mental Health

• Military

• Spiritual Care

• Traumatic Stress

 

Course Information:

  • Accredited by the International Critical Incident Stress Foundation (ICISF)
  • Instructor: Lt. Larry Lowe (Ret.), BA, MS, MPO, CCISM  - Chaplain, Richardson Police Department - Accredited ICISF/TCOLE Instructor
  • This course has been accepted for Continuing Education credit by TCOLE for law enforcement personnel, TCFP for fire personnel, TDSHS for Paramedics/EMS personnel, and the Texas State Board of Examiners for Professional Counselors (LPC), Marriage and Family Therapists (LMFT), and Social Workers (LMSW). Also accredited by the International Critical Incident Stress Foundation (ICISF) and by the University of Maryland – Baltimore County (UMBC) for Continuing Education Units (CEUs) and is required by UMBC to apply for Certification in Critical Incident Stress Management (CCISM).
     

This Course Focuses On:

  • Psychological crisis and psychological crisis intervention 
  • The importance of the resistance, resiliency, recovery continuum of care
  • Understanding Critical Incident Stress Management in an individual setting
  • Using basic crisis communication techniques
  • Common psychological and behavioral crisis reactions
  • The importance of empirically-derived and recognized mechanisms 
  • Applying the SAFER-Revised model in individual interventions
  • The basic use of the SAFER-model for suicide intervention
  • Recognizing and avoiding risks of inadvertent  “harm” 

 

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