Critical Incident Stress Management (CISM) Training

Critical Incident Stress Management (CISM) - Orientation: Understanding and using CISM is an important aspect of school or business crisis planning. CISM represents an integrated, comprehensive, multi-component crisis intervention program. Its comprehensive nature gives it flexibility to be applied to a wide range of settings and constituent groups. This crisis intervention system is useful in schools, businesses and industry, as well as in public safety and mass disaster applications. Read more

Group Crisis Intervention The Group Crisis Intervention course specifically prepares participants to provide several of these interventions, specifically demobilizations, defusings and the CISD. The need for appropriate follow up services and referrals when necessary is also described. Considerable evidence gathered to date strongly supports the multi component crisis intervention strategy, which is discussed in this course. The CISM: Group Crisis Intervention course is designed to specifically teach crisis intervention and Emergency Mental Health skills such as demobilizations, defusing, and CISD. Read more

Advanced Group Crisis Intervention: The Advanced CISM training program has been designed to provide participants with the latest information on critical incident stress management techniques and post-trauma syndromes. The program emphasizes a broadening of the knowledge base concerning critical incident stress interventions as well as Post- Traumatic Stress Disorder which was established in the basic program and/or in publications. At the conclusion of this educational program the participants will have been exposed to specific, proven strategies to intervene with those suffering the ill effects of their exposure to trauma. The emphasis will be on advanced defusings and debriefings in complex situation. Read more