Assisting Individuals in Crisis and Group Crisis Intervention
Join our trained 100 Club staff through the International Critical Incident Stress Foundation (ICISF) for a multi-day training presenting on “Assisting Individuals in Crisis & Group Crisis Intervention”.
All training materials and certificates will be included in this training at no cost for members of the first responder community and those who serve first responders in a critical incident and/or peer support capacity. Please see further training details on this webpage and complete the application below to be considered for a seat in the class. Space is limited. We will do our best to accommodate as many applicants as possible.
Please Note: Clinicians who are not directly affiliated with a department or who do not have the endorsement of a CISM team will be assessed the following registration fees:
$300 for the Individual Crisis Intervention course
$300 for the Group Crisis Intervention course
$500 for both courses (full 4-day training)
If you are affiliated with a department or are working with a local CISM team, please reach out to Meg Krase at mkrase@100clubil.org.
MULTI-DAY TRAINING | NOVEMBER 17-20
8:00 AM – 5:00 PM
JOLIET JUNIOR COLLEGE
Applications submitted by September 19th will be reviewed the following week. Any further applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis and approved upon availability. Due to the high demand of this course, admission to participate may be limited to 1-2 member per agency.
MULTI-DAY TRAINING | JANUARY 13-16
8:00 AM – 5:00 PM
OGLE COUNTY EMA OFFICE
Applications submitted by December 1st will be reviewed the following week. Any further applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis and approved upon availability.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
This course will achieve the following 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.
- To become familiar with relevant 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, demobilizations and crisis management briefings (CMB).
- To become familiar with small group crisis interventions, defusings, Critical Incident Stress Debriefing (CISD) and Small Group Crisis Management briefing (CMB).
- To become familiar with risks of adverse outcome associated with crisis intervention and how to reduce those risks.
- To practice large and small group crisis intervention and how to reduce those risks.
- To practice specifically the small group Critical Incident Stress Debriefing (CISD).
- Understand the natures & definitions of a psychological crisis and psychological crisis intervention.
- Discuss issues and findings of evidence-based practice as it relates to psychological crisis intervention.
- Practice basic crisis communication techniques.
- Be familiar with common psychological and behavioral crisis reactions, including empirically-derived predictors of post-traumatic stress disorder.
- 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.