• Instructor: North Carolina Law Enforcement Assistance Program, Danny B. Leonard
• Date:        June 13-14, 2018
• Location:   RCCC-NCRC, Room 115
• Time:         8 am – 5 pm
• Total Hrs.  16

This training is designed to present the core elements of a comprehensive, systematic and multi-component crisis intervention curriculum, the course will prepare participants to understand a wide range of crisis intervention services for individuals. Fundamentals of Critical Incident Stress Management (CISM) will be outlined. Participants will be provided with tools to lead individual crisis interventions. The need for appropriate follow-up services and referrals when necessary will also be discussed.

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

Course 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
• Relevant research findings
• Adverse outcome associated with crisis intervention

Students may register for this class by emailing Chuck Adams.