Course Descriptions | Paladin Cism Support

Classes in North Texas cost $200 per person for scheduled classes.

Classes in North Texas cost $300 per person for scheduled classes.

Please contact us for pricing.

ICISF's Assisting Individuals in Crisis

Crisis Intervention is NOT psychotherapy; rather, it is a specialized acute emergency mental health intervention which requires specialized training. As physical first aid is to surgery, crisis intervention is to psychotherapy. Thus, crisis intervention is sometimes called “emotional first aid”. This program is designed for teach participants the fundamentals of, and a specific protocol for, individual crisis intervention.

This course is designed for anyone who desires to increase their knowledge of individual (one-on-one) crisis intervention techniques in the fields of Business & Industry, Crisis Intervention, Disaster Response, Education, Emergency Services, Employee Assistance, Healthcare, Homeland Security, Mental Health, Military, Spiritual Care, and Traumatic Stress.

Program Highlights:

Psychological crisis and psychological crisis intervention
Resistance, resiliency, recovery continuum
Critical incident stress management
Evidence-based practice
Basic crisis communication techniques
Common psychological and behavioral crisis reactions
Putative and empirically-derived mechanisms
SAFER-Revised model
Suicide intervention
Risks of iatrogenic “harm”

Designed to present the core elements of a comprehensive, systematic and multi-component crisis intervention curriculum, the Group Crisis Intervention course will prepare participants to understand a wide range of crisis intervention services. Fundamentals of Critical Incident Stress Management (CISM) will be outlined and participants will leave with the knowledge and tools to provide several group crisis interventions, specifically demobilizations, defusings and the Critical Incident Stress Debriefing (CISD). The need for appropriate follow-up services and referrals when necessary will also be discussed.

This course is designed for anyone in the fields of Business & Industry Crisis Intervention, Disaster Response, Education, Emergency Services, Employee Assistance, Healthcare, Homeland Security, Mental Health, Military, Spiritual Care, and Traumatic Stress.

Program Highlights:

Relevant research findings
Relevant recommendations for practice
Incident assessment
Strategic intervention planning
“Resistance, resilience, recovery” continuum
Large group crisis interventions
Small group crisis interventions
Adverse outcome associated with crisis intervention
Reducing risks
Critical Incident Stress Debriefing (CISD)

This 3 day course combines the best elements of the Assisting Individuals in Crisis and the Group Crisis Intervention trainings in a more compact form. If you have three consecutive days available, this is the most cost effective way to recieve both trainings and the fastest way to become competent in these disciplines.

As first responders, we all face the potential for the negative effects of traumatic incident stress. The mere fact that we run to violent situations that the general public would run away from shows that we are wired differently from the flock. But, this difference also carries the potential for trouble if we don’t constructively mitigate the negative side effects. We have all heard about the negative impact and implications of alcohol use and abuse. We live in a society that has given us a barrage of billboards, commercials, and news clips about the misuse of this potentially deadly drug. It has been called the most deadly drug in America; however, it is still constantly abused by people in all aspects of life regardless of a person’s socio-economic status, race, religion, or profession. Even we, as first responders aren’t immune to its life-changing effects. We are called to a higher standard and alcohol abuse by another first responder either has or will have some type of impact on you at one point or another in your career. This presentation isn’t here to scare you into responsible drinking but to help you make better choices concerning alcohol use and our responsibilities as first responders to ourselves, our department, and our families.

Lesson Objectives:

To identify stressors common to first responders.
To understand how to address and mitigate the effects of traumatic incident stress
To promote an understanding of the seriousness of our alcohol problem.
To warn of the dangers of persistent alcohol abuse.
To discuss killing from a certain philosophical view.
To alert first responders of the need to watch out for their peers.

As first responders, we all deal with the after effects of hypervigilance and the increased stressors of society as a whole. But, compassion fatigue affects those special few that deal entirely or in part with assisting the hurting. This training is about you and how to mitigate the effects of this field.

Lesson Objectives:

To promote the need for training in Compassion Fatigue.
To explain compassion fatigue and other terms associated with it.
To give instruction on Self Care techniques for mitigation of compassion fatigue.

We provide training in developing, cost considerations, selecting team members, and training your peer support team for success. I can come to your department to train and consult your team or I can do this through Zoom if necessary.

•We will discuss:

1.Why should you build a peer support/CISM team?

2.What kind of team do you need?

Peer Support vs. CISM

3.Does Peer Support/CISM work?

4.Knowing your department

Administration Support

5.Selecting professionals and team members

6.Training

7.Supervision & direction

Keeping your team motivated