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