Requirements for Completion

Core Curriculum:

A) Core Curriculum: Requirements for all Program Tracks

All three of these courses required   Group Crisis Intervention   Individual Crisis Intervention and Peer Support   Suicide Prevention, Intervention and Postvention plus... One of these courses required   Advanced Group Crisis Intervention Or...   Strategic Response to Crisis and... The Changing Face of Crisis and Disaster Mental Health Intervention: A Competency-based Update * *If you have taken either the Group Crisis Intervention or the Individual Crisis Intervention and Peer Support course after January 1, 2007, you are exempt from this requirement. Specialty Curriculum and Electives Courses also required to complete any program track

Specialty Curriculum:

B) Specialty Curriculum: Two courses required for all Program Tracks

Emergency Services Two of these courses required   Behavioral Emergencies: Survival Strategies for Emergency Services and Counselors   Families and CISM: Developing a Comprehensive Program   Law Enforcement Perspectives for CISM Enhancement   Line of Duty Death: Preparing for the Best for the Worst   Stress Management for the Trauma Services Provider Core Curriculum and Electives Courses also required to complete this program track Mass Disasters & Terrorism Two of these courses required   Changing Perspectives of Disaster - An Interactive Journey   CISM: When Disaster Strikes: Linking Emergency Management With Stress Management   Domestic Terrorism and Weapons of Mass Destruction: A CISM Perspective   Terrorism: Psychological Impact and Implications Core Curriculum and Electives Courses also required to complete this program track Schools & Children Crisis Response Required plus... One of these courses required   CISM: Application with Children   Managing School Crises: From Theory to Application Or...   Responding to School Crises: An Integrated Multi-Component Crisis Intervention Approach Core Curriculum and Electives Courses also required to complete this program track Spiritual Care in Crisis Intervention Two of these courses required   Emotional and Spiritual Care in Disasters   Grief Following Trauma   Pastoral Crisis Intervention   Pastoral Crisis Intervention II Core Curriculum and Electives Courses also required to complete this program track Substance Abuse Crisis Response Both of these courses required   From Trauma to Addictions   Stress Management for the Trauma Services Provider Core Curriculum and Electives Courses also required to complete this program track Workplace & Industrial Applications Two of these courses required   Comprehensive Crisis Preparation & Response for the Workplace   Corporate Crisis Response: CISM in the Workplace   Early Intervention and Crisis Response in EAP and Behavioral Healthcare Settings   Staff Support in the Healthcare Setting   Understanding Human Violence: A Primer for Emergency Services Personnel & Counselors Core Curriculum and Electives Courses also required to complete this program track

Electives:

C) Electives required for all Program Tracks

Two days of training required   One 2-day class from list below Or...   Two 1-day classes from list below Core Curriculum and Specialty Curriculum also required to complete any program track

Electives

2 Day Programs

• Assaulted Staff Action Program (ASAP): Coping with the Psychological Aftermath of Violence
• Behavioral Emergencies: Survival Strategies for Emergency Services and Counselors
• Building Skills for Crisis Intervention Teams
• Changing Perspectives of Disaster - An Interactive Journey
• CISM: Applications with Air Medical and Critical Care Transport
• CISM Application with Children
• CISM: When Disaster Strikes: Linking Emergency Management with Stress Management
• Compassion Fatigue
• Comprehensive Crisis Preparation & Response for the Workplace
• Corporate Crisis Response: CISM in the Workplace
• Domestic Terrorism and Weapons of Mass Destruction: A CISM Perspective
• Early Intervention and Crisis Response in EAP and Behavioral Healthcare Settings
• Emotional and Spiritual Care in Disasters
• Ethics for Traumatologists: A Workshop for Clinicians, Responders, Researchers, Educators and Consultants in the Trauma Field
• Families and CISM: Developing a Comprehensive Program
• From Battlefield to Street: One Uniform to Another
• From Trauma to Addictions
• Grief Following Trauma
• Law Enforcement Perspectives for CISM Enhancement
• Line of Duty Death: Preparing for the Best for the Worst
• Managing School Crises: From Theory to Application
• Pastoral Crisis Intervention
• Pastoral Crisis Intervention II
• Preventing Youth Violence
• Resilience Training to Improve Mental Health and Perfomance Under Pressure
• Responding to School Crises: An Integrated Multi-Component Crisis Intervention Approach
• Staff Support in the Healthcare Setting
• Stress Management for the Trauma Services Provider
• TEAM: Team Evolution and Management
• Terrorism: Psychological Impact and Implications
• Understanding Human Violence: A Primer for Emergency Services Personnel & Counselors
• Working with Victims of Individual and Mass Crimes

1 Day Programs

• Best Practices for the CISM Instructor
• Psychotraumatology For Clinicians: A Cognitive Therapeutic Approach
• The Changing Face of Crisis and Disaster Mental Health Intervention: A Competency-based Update
• Treatment of Complex PTSD

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Last updated January, 2008