Crisis Intervention for Individuals and Groups (CIIG)
Three-day course, 22.5 contact hours
Crisis intervention is a unique form of emergency emotional health care. It is not counseling nor is it therapy. Crisis intervention is “emotional first aid” to those who have been impacted by disasters and other critical events. As physical first aid is provided in the emergency moments, followed by more comprehensive interventions such as surgery, crisis intervention is provided in those emergency moments followed by more comprehensive interventions such as counseling and therapy when the need remains. Crisis intervention requires specialized training.
What you will learn:
- The problem of stress as a psychological reaction
- The need for multi-modal crisis intervention and support
- Assessment tools for crisis reactions
- “Peer to Peer” crisis intervention
- Assess, interact, evaluate, follow-up, refer
- Group Crisis Intervention
- Linking peers, co-constructing a collective survival story, promoting emotions of resolve, facilitating group cohesion and coping
- “Mitchel Model for CISD”
- Following up strategies
- After Action Reviews·
- Self-care
- Exercises to practice crisis intervention methods