| Program Detail |
: Critical Incident Stress Management (CISM) is a comprehensive psycho-educational program designed to help people cope with traumatic events. Critical Incident Stress Debriefing (CISD), the primary focus of this course, is part of CISM and is an intervention used to help people following exposure to a traumatic event. CISD accelerates the normal recovery process by lessening the impact of a distressing event. This course provides basic training for persons interested in providing CISD or developing a CISD team.
Participants learn about stress management interventions with the community and emergency service workers, the nature of critical incidents, critical incident stress response, and emergency service-worker personality characteristics. You are also introduced to services offered in critical incident stress management programs, such as pre-incident education, on-scene support, demobilization debriefings, defusings, and specialty debriefings. |
