The Saratoga County Peer Support Team, in partnership with the New York Law Enforcement Assistance Program (NYLEAP), is pleased to announce the availability of the ICISF Assisting Individuals in Crisis (AIC) AND Group Crisis Intervention (GCI) training courses. These courses are a critical component for those that serve as law enforcement peers.
These FREE two-day classes are being offered:
Saratoga County
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
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