International Critical Incident Stress Foundation, Inc.

Certificate of Specialized Training Program

Core Curriculum (All Specialty Tracks are required to complete the Core Curriculum**)

BOTH REQUIRED

• Group Crisis Intervention

• Assisting Individuals in Crisis (formerly Individual Crisis Intervention & Peer Support)

ONE OF THESE REQUIRED

• Advanced Group Crisis Intervention

• Advanced Assisting Individuals in Crisis

• Strategic Response to Crisis

ONE OF THESE IS REQUIRED

• Suicide Prevention, Intervention and Postvention

• Suicide Awareness: An Introduction for Crisis Responders

• Understanding Suicide: Effective Tools for Prevention, Intervention & Survivor Support

**Specialty Curriculum are required for completion of a specialty track.

Specialty Curriculum

For each specialty track, follow the instructions under the specialty track title and submit copies of all necessary certificates of completion along with the application and payment.

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Emergency Services

Total of four days of training required for this specialty

2-Day Courses

  • From Battlefield to Street: One Uniform to Another
  • Law Enforcement Perspectives for CISM Enhancement
  • Line of Duty Death: Preparing the Best for the Worst
  • Resilience Training: Psychological Survival Skills for Before, During & After Crises
  • Stress Management for the Trauma Service Provider
  • Workplace Violence

1-Day Courses

  • Planning to Thrive as a CISM Provider
  • Resilience Leadership for Emergency Health Services & Healthcare Professions
  • Stress & the Responder’s Family CISM Skills for Family Crisis Intervention
  • The Secrets of PSYCHOLOGICAL BODY ARMOR ™ – Holistic Wellness for Emergency Personnel
  • Techniques for Delivering Bad News for Crisis Response Personnel
  • Understanding the First Responder Cultures: For Mental Health Staff
  • Understanding Uniformed Services Family Stress
  • Workplace Violence

Schools, Children and Families Crisis Response

Total of 4 days of training required for this specialty

2-Day Courses

  • CISM Application with Children
  • Managing School Crises: From Theory to Application
  • Resilience Training: Psychological Survival Skills for Before, During and After Crises

  • Workplace Violence

1-Day Courses

  • Stress & the Responder’s Family CISM Skills for Family Crisis Intervention
  • Understanding Uniformed Services Family Stress
  • Workplace Violence

Healthcare Crisis Management and Staff Support

Must complete Staff Support in the Healthcare Setting along with an additional 2 Days of Training

2-Day Courses

  • Staff Support in the Healthcare Setting (Required for Specialty Track)
  • Resilience Training: Psychological Survival Skills for Before, During & After Crises
  • Workplace Violence

1-Day Courses

  • Resilience in Healthcare: Performance, Meaning and Connection
  • Resilience Leadership for Emergency Health Services & Healthcare Professions
  • Techniques for Delivering Bad News for Crisis Response Personnel
  • Workplace Violence

Spiritual Care in Crisis Intervention

Must complete Pastoral Crisis Intervention: Psychological and Faith-Based Crisis Intervention along with an additional 2 Days of Training

2-Day Courses

  • Emotional and Spiritual Care in Disasters
  • Grief Following Trauma
  • Pastoral Crisis Intervention: Psychological and Faith-Based Crisis Intervention (Required for specialty track)
  • Resilience Training: Psychological Survival Skills for Before, During and After Crises 
  • Spiritual and Psychological First Aid

1-Day Course

  • Critical Incidents in Places of Worship-Providing Effective Crisis Support
  • Resilience Leadership for Emergency Health Services & Healthcare Professions

Mass Disasters & Terrorism

Two courses required for this specialty

  • Emotional & Spiritual Care in Disasters
  • Planning to Thrive as a CISM Provider
  • Psychology of Terrorism and Psychological Counter-Terrorism
  • Resilience Training: Psychological Survival Skills for Before, During and After Crises
  • Terrorism: Psychological Impact and Implications
  • Working with Victims of Individual & Mass Crimes

Substance Abuse Crisis Response

Must complete From Trauma to Addictions along with an additional 2 Days of Training

2-Day Courses

  • From Battlefield to Street: One Uniform to Another
  • From Trauma to Addictions  (Required for specialty track)
  • Law Enforcement Perspectives for CISM Enhancement
  • Resilience Training: Psychological Survival Skills for Before, During and After Crises
  • Stress Management for the Trauma Service Provider

1-Day Courses

  • The Secrets of PSYCHOLOGICAL BODY ARMOR ™ – Holistic Wellness for Emergency Personnel

  • Understanding the First Responder Cultures: For Mental Health Staff

  • Understanding Uniformed Services Family Stress

Workplace & Industrial Applications

Must complete Comprehensive Crisis Preparation and Response for the Workplace along with an additional 2 Days of Training

2-Day Courses

  • Comprehensive Crisis Preparation and Response for the Workplace (Required for specialty track)
  • Resilience Training: Psychological Survival Skills for Before, During and After Crises
  • Workplace Violence

1-Day Course

  • Workplace Violence