These FREE two-day classes are being offered:

Assisting Individuals in Crisis: July 31 - August 1, 2023 – Jefferson County (Watertown)

Group Crisis Intervention: August 2-3, 2023 – Jefferson County (Watertown)

Target audience of these courses is law enforcement (including police, corrections, parole, probation officers and LE chaplains), that currently serve as peers, or are in the process of developing a peer support program.

These are International Critical Incident Stress Foundation (ICISF) developed curriculums.  Advantages of attending are: 

Assisting Individuals in Crisis:

• Participants will learn how to provide individual crisis intervention using proven methods

• Participants will receive a certificate of completion from the ICISF

• This course is required for persons pursuing the ICISF Certificate of Advanced Training 

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

• Understand the natures & definitions of a psychological crisis and psychological crisis intervention

• Understand the resistance, resiliency, recovery continuum

• Understand the nature and definition of critical incident stress management and its role as a continuum of care

• Practice basic crisis communication techniques

• Be familiar with common psychological and behavioral crisis reactions

• Understand the putative and empirically-derived mechanisms of action in psychological crisis intervention

• Practice the SAFER-Revised model of individual psychological crisis intervention

• Understand how the SAFER-Revised model may be altered for suicide intervention

• Understand and discuss the risks of iatrogenic “harm” associated with psychological crisis intervention and will further discuss how to reduce those risks 

Group Crisis Intervention:

• Participants will learn how to provide group crisis intervention using proven methods

• Participants will receive a certificate of completion from the ICISF

• This course is required for persons pursuing the ICISF Certificate of Advanced Training 

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

• To increase awareness of key terms and concepts relevant to the practice of crisis intervention and disaster mental health intervention.

• To become familiar with relevant research findings and recommendations for practice.

• To understand the nature and importance of incident assessment and strategic intervention planning.

• To understand the nature of the “resistance, resilience, recovery” continuum and the role of the integrated, multi-component, Critical Incident Stress Management system (CISM).

• To become familiar with large group crisis interventions:

Rest, Information & Transition Service (RITS; formerly called Demobilization)

         Crisis Management Briefings

• To become familiar with small group crisis interventions:

 -   Defusing

     -   Critical Incident Stress Debriefing (CISD)                  

• To become familiar with risks of adverse outcome associated with crisis intervention and how to reduce those risks.