Course Descriptions
This page lists course descriptions for core, advanced and specialty courses offered through ICISF.
To find out where you can attend these courses, click on one of the Education & Training Programs to the right or visit our Upcoming Events calendar for more information.
Core Courses
If you have never taken any ICISF courses before, we recommend everyone start with the Core Courses, Assisting Individuals in Crisis & Group Crisis Intervention.
- Assisting Individuals in Crisis
- Assisting Individuals in Crisis & Group Crisis Intervention
- Assisting Individuals in Crisis & Group Crisis Intervention in Colleges and Universities
- Assisting Individuals in Crisis Online Course
- Group Crisis Intervention
- Group Crisis Intervention Online Course
- Suicide Awareness: An Introduction for Crisis Responders
- Suicide Prevention, Intervention and Postvention
- Understanding Suicide: Effective Tools for Prevention, Intervention and Survivor Support
Advanced Core Courses
Have you taken the Core Courses? If so, then our Advanced Core Courses are a great next step! These courses build on your CISM knowledge from the Core Courses.
CISM Refresher - Practice Scenarios
Do you want to work on competency, review current information on proper use, and get updates in new skills, methods and processes? These 3-hour live faculty-led virtual sessions of scenario-based training exercises is what you need!
Learning with Leaders
Our subject matter leaders have done the work, know the challenges and are ready to share their expertise.
These short presentations focus on providing personal in-depth knowledge and innovative ideas motivated by the ICISF mission and core values.
Leaders and presentations are creative and provide vision to inspire action and growth.
- Changing Angles to Change Outcomes: Using CISM to Help Break the “Fix It” Mentality
- Effective De-escalation in Crises
- Putting Boots on the Ground: Tips to Overcome Obstacles and Resistance to Peer Services During Critical Incidents
- Successful Orientation for Achievement and Resiliency (S.O.A.R) Using a CISM Framework
Specialty Courses
Looking for CISM training specific to your profession, organization or area of interest? The ICISF has you covered! These courses provide you with specific CISM tools and resources for any profession.
- 360 Degrees of CISM: A forward focused approach to building a resiliency culture
- Behavioral Aspects of Integrated Community Para-medicine
- Behavioral Emergencies: Survival Strategies for Emergency Services and Counselors
- Best Training Practices for the CISM Instructor
- Building Skills for Crisis Intervention Teams
- CISM Application with Children
- CISM: When Disaster Strikes: Linking Emergency Management with Stress Management
- Comprehensive Crisis Preparation and Response for the Workplace
- Corporate Crisis Response
- Critical Incident Stress Management (CISM) in the College and University Setting
- Critical Incidents in Places of Worship- Providing Effective Crisis Support
- De-escalation Skills for the Front Line: A Practical Approach
- Emotional and Spiritual Care in Disasters
- Ethics For Traumatologists
- From Battlefield to Street: One Uniform to Another
- From Trauma to Addictions
- Grief Following Trauma
- Healing Ways: Group Crisis Interventions for Indigenous Peoples
- Law Enforcement Perspectives for CISM Enhancement
- Line of Duty Death: Preparing the Best for the Worst
- Managing School Crises: From Theory to Application
- Mindful Decontamination: Self-Regulating Techniques for First Responders
- Pandemic, Bioterrorism, Radiation, Pollution and other “Disasters of Uncertainty” a Critical Incident Stress Management (CISM) Perspectives
- Pastoral Crisis Intervention
- Pastoral Crisis Intervention I
- Pastoral Crisis Intervention II
- Planning 2 Thrive (P2T): A Management Approach to Individual and Organizational Wellness
- Planning to Thrive as a CISM Provider (formerly known as Left of Bang: Front End Planning for CISM)
- Planning to Thrive: Building A CISM Culture Through Front End Management
- Psychology of Terrorism and Psychological Counter-Terrorism
- Psychotraumatology: A Cognitive Therapeutic Approach
- Resilience in Healthcare: Performance, Meaning and Connection
- Resilience Training: Psychological Survival Skills for Before, During & After Crises
- Resilient Leadership for Emergency Services & Healthcare Professions
- Responding to School Crises: A Multi-Component Crisis Intervention Approach
- S.O.A.Ring with CISM: A Strategic Planning Primer
- Spiritual and Psychological First Aid
- Spiritual Faith Tactics and Skill-Building in CISM
- Staff Support in the Healthcare Setting 1 – day
- Staff Support in the Healthcare Setting 2 – day
- Stress and the Responder’s Family CISM Skills for Family Crisis Intervention
- Stress Management for the Trauma Service Provider
- Survival Skills for the First Responder
- TEAM: Team Evolution and Management
- Techniques for Delivering Bad News for Crisis Response Personnel
- Terrorism: Psychological Impact and Implications
- The Secrets of Psychological Body Armor ™ – Holistic Wellness for Emergency Services and Healthcare Professions
- Thought Field Therapy
- Treatment of Complex PTSD
- Understanding the First Responder’s Cultures: For Mental Health Staff
- Understanding Uniformed Services Family Stress
- Workplace Violence 1-day
- Workplace Violence 2-day
