Critical Incident Stress Management

• Instructor:   Danny Leonard – NC-LEAP                                  REGISTER HERE
• Date: April 24-26, 2024
• Location:  RCCC-N, Building N110, Room 133
• Time:  8 am – 5 pm
• Total Hrs: 24

Designed to present the core elements of a comprehensive, systematic and multi-component crisis intervention curriculum, the course will prepare participants to under- stand a wide range of crisis intervention services for individuals and groups. Fundamentals of Critical Incident Stress Management (CISM) will be outlined. Participants will be provided with tools to lead several group crisis interventions, specifically defusings and the Critical Incident Stress Debriefings (CISD). The need for appropriate follow-up services and referrals when necessary will also be discussed.

Evidence-based practice

• Basic crisis communication techniques
• Common psychological and behavioral crisis reactions
• Putative and empirically-derived mechanisms
• SAFER-Revised model
• Suicide intervention
• Relevant research findings
• Large group crisis interventions
• Small group crisis interventions
• Adverse outcome associated with crisis intervention
• Critical Incident Stress Debriefing (CISD)

Please send all questions to LETrain@rccc.edu.