Events

2022 CISM - Critical Incident Stress Management Training

2022 CISM - Critical Incident Stress Management Training

Registration IS CLOSED for this event

In JUNE 2022 we are offering the following Critical Incident Stress Management Class:

Assisting Individuals in Crisis  (this class was moved from April and is now re-opened for those wishing to register. The "Emotional and Spiritual Care in Disasters" class is still ON for April 29 and 30.)

Dates:
June 17-18, 2022 (Friday/Saturday) - You must attend all hours, both days, to get a certificate. 
Registration IS CLOSED for this event

Times: 
Friday - 9:30am - 6pm (lunch provided)
Saturday - 8am to 2:30pm (lunch provided)
Location:  
Baptist Building, 10 Remington Drive, Little Rock, AR 
    Driving Directions to the Baptist Building (PDF file)

Cost:
$50 for members of ABSC churches, $95 for others. Registration is required - see below. 

Course Description: Assisting Individuals in Crisis 

This is the best “first” CISM course to take, but you can take the other course above without having this one as a pre-requisite.  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 to teach participants the fundamentals of, and a specific protocol for, individual crisis intervention.

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”

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.

This is a 13 contact hour, two-day class. 
Attendees must be present for the entire course to receive a certificate of attendance.