Critical Incident Stress Management Three Day Class
GRIN in-person class coming to Durham, NC in April
Group Crisis Intervention
and
Assisting Individuals in Crisis
(ICISF GRIN Class)
Date: April 7-9, 2025
Time: 8:00am-5:00pm (each day)
Cost: $60
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This includes both manuals, all handouts for class, and certificate for both classes.
Participants must attend all three days in their entirety to receive certificate.
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This class is being hosted by Durham County EMS and being held at:
Bethesda Volunteer Fire Dept./EMS
Assisting Individuals in Crisis
Course Description: 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”.
This program is designed to teach participants the fundamentals of, and a specific protocol for, individual crisis intervention. This course is designed for anyone who desires to increase their knowledge of individual (one-on-one) crisis intervention techniques in the fields of Business & Industry, Crisis Intervention, Disaster Response, Education, Emergency Services, Employee Assistance, Healthcare, Homeland Security, Mental Health, Military, Spiritual Care, and Traumatic Stress.
Program Highlights:
• Psychological crisis and psychological crisis
intervention
• Resistance, resiliency, recovery continuum
• Critical incident stress management
• Evidence-based practice
• Basic crisis communication techniques
• Common psychological and behavioral crisis reactions
• Putative and empirically derived mechanisms
• SAFER-Revised model
• Suicide intervention
• Risks of iatrogenic “harm”
Group Crisis Intervention
Course Description: Designed to present the core elements of a comprehensive, systematic, and multi-component crisis intervention
curriculum, the Group Crisis Intervention course will prepare participants to understand a wide range of crisis intervention services.
Fundamentals of Critical Incident Stress Management (CISM) will be outlined, and participants will leave with the knowledge and tools to provide several group crisis interventions, specifically demobilizations, defusing and the Critical Incident Stress Debriefing (CISD). The need for appropriate follow-up services and referrals, when necessary, will also be discussed.
This course is designed for anyone in the fields of Business & Industry Crisis Intervention, Disaster Response, Education, Emergency Services, Employee Assistance, Healthcare, Homeland Security, Mental Health, Military, Spiritual Care, and Traumatic Stress.
Program Highlights:
• Relevant research findings
• Small group crisis interventions
• Relevant recommendations for practice
• Adverse outcome associated with crisis
intervention.
• Incident assessment
• Reducing risks
• Strategic intervention planning
• Critical Incident Stress Debriefing (CISD)
• “Resistance, resilience, recovery” continuum
• Large group crisis interventions