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.
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!
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.
- Assaulted Staff Action Program (ASAP): Coping with the Psychological Aftermath of Violence
- 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 Applications with Air Medical, Critical Care Transport and Airborne Law Enforcement
- CISM: When Disaster Strikes: Linking Emergency Management with Stress Management
- Compassion Fatigue
- Comprehensive Crisis Preparation and Response for the Workplace
- Corporate Crisis Response
- Critical Incidents in Places of Worship- Providing Effective Crisis Support
- Domestic Terrorism and Weapons of Mass Destruction: A CISM Perspective
- Emotional and Spiritual Care in Disasters
- Ethics For Traumatologists
- From Battlefield to Street: One Uniform to Another
- From Battlefield to Street: One Uniform to Another
- From Trauma to Addictions
- Grantwriting: A Management Strategy
- 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
- 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 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
- Preventing Youth Violence
- 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
- Responding to School Crises: A Multi-Component Crisis Intervention Approach
- Spiritual and Psychological First Aid
- Staff Support in the Healthcare Setting
- Strategic Response to Crisis
- Stress and the Responder’s Family CISM Skills for Family Crisis Intervention
- Stress Management for the Trauma Service Provider
- Suicide Awareness: An Introduction for Crisis Responders
- Suicide Prevention, Intervention and Postvention
- 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
- Thought Field Therapy
- Treatment of Complex PTSD
- Understanding Human Violence: Survival Information for Emergency Services and Counselors
- Understanding Suicide: Effective Tools for Prevention, Intervention and Survivor Support
- Understanding the First Responder’s Cultures: For Mental Health Staff
- Understanding Uniformed Services Family Stress
- Working With Victims of Individual and Mass Crimes
- Workplace Violence 1-day
- Workplace Violence 2-day
