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Requirements for Completion

Core Curriculum courses, Specialty Curriculum courses and Electives are required before submitting an application for any specialty certificate.

Core Curriculum:

A) Core Curriculum: Requirements for all Program Tracks

All three of these courses required

  Group Crisis Intervention
  Individual Crisis Intervention and Peer Support
  Suicide Prevention, Intervention and Postvention

plus...
One of these courses required

  Advanced Group Crisis Intervention
Or...
  Strategic Response to Crisis

and...

The Changing Face of Crisis and Disaster Mental Health Intervention: A Competency-based Update *
*If you have taken either the Group Crisis Intervention or the Individual Crisis Intervention and Peer Support course after January 1, 2007, you are exempt from this requirement.

Specialty Curriculum and Electives Courses also required to complete any program track
Specialty Curriculum:

B) Specialty Curriculum: Two courses required for all Program Tracks

Emergency Services

Two of these courses required
  Behavioral Emergencies: Survival Strategies for Emergency Services and Counselors
  Families and CISM: Developing a Comprehensive Program
  Law Enforcement Perspectives for CISM Enhancement
  Line of Duty Death: Preparing for the Best for the Worst
  Stress Management for the Trauma Services Provider

Core Curriculum and Electives Courses also required to complete this program track

Mass Disasters & Terrorism

Two of these courses required
  Changing Perspectives of Disaster - An Interactive Journey
  CISM: When Disaster Strikes: Linking Emergency Management With Stress Management
  Domestic Terrorism and Weapons of Mass Destruction: A CISM Perspective
  Terrorism: Psychological Impact and Implications

Core Curriculum and Electives Courses also required to complete this program track

Schools & Children Crisis Response

Required
plus...
One of these courses required

  CISM: Application with Children

  Managing School Crises: From Theory to Application
Or...
  Responding to School Crises: An Integrated Multi-Component Crisis Intervention Approach

Core Curriculum and Electives Courses also required to complete this program track

Spiritual Care in Crisis Intervention

Two of these courses required
  Emotional and Spiritual Care in Disasters
  Grief Following Trauma
  Pastoral Crisis Intervention
  Pastoral Crisis Intervention II

Core Curriculum and Electives Courses also required to complete this program track

Substance Abuse Crisis Response

Both of these courses required
  From Trauma to Addictions
  Stress Management for the Trauma Services Provider

Core Curriculum and Electives Courses also required to complete this program track

Workplace & Industrial Applications

Two of these courses required
  CISM in the Healthcare Setting
  Comprehensive Crisis Preparation & Response for the Workplace
  Corporate Crisis Response: CISM in the Workplace
  Early Intervention and Crisis Response in EAP and Behavioral Healthcare Settings
  Understanding Human Violence: A Primer for Emergency Services Personnel & Counselors

Core Curriculum and Electives Courses also required to complete this program track

Electives:

C) Electives required for all Program Tracks

Two days of training required

  One 2-day class from list below
Or...
  Two 1-day classes from list below

Core Curriculum and Specialty Curriculum also required to complete any program track

Electives

2 Day Programs

  • Assaulted Staff Action Program (ASAP): Coping with the Psychological Aftermath of Violence
  • Behavioral Emergencies: Survival Strategies for Emergency Services and Counselors
  • Building Skills for Crisis Intervention Teams
  • Changing Perspectives of Disaster - An Interactive Journey
  • CISM: Applications with Air Medical and Critical Care Transport
  • CISM Application with Children
  • CISM in the Healthcare Setting
  • CISM: When Disaster Strikes: Linking Emergency Management with Stress Management
  • Compassion Fatigue
  • Comprehensive Crisis Preparation & Response for the Workplace
  • Corporate Crisis Response: CISM in the Workplace
  • Domestic Terrorism and Weapons of Mass Destruction: A CISM Perspective
  • Early Intervention and Crisis Response in EAP and Behavioral Healthcare Settings
  • Emotional and Spiritual Care in Disasters
  • Ethics for Traumatologists: A Workshop for Clinicians, Responders, Researchers, Educators and Consultants in the Trauma Field
  • Families and CISM: Developing a Comprehensive Program
  • From Battlefield to Street: One Uniform to Another
  • From Trauma to Addictions
  • Grief Following Trauma
  • Law Enforcement Perspectives for CISM Enhancement
  • Line of Duty Death: Preparing for the Best for the Worst
  • Managing School Crises: From Theory to Application
  • Pastoral Crisis Intervention
  • Pastoral Crisis Intervention II
  • Preventing Youth Violence
  • Resilience Training to Improve Mental Health and Perfomance Under Pressure
  • Responding to School Crises: An Integrated Multi-Component Crisis Intervention Approach
  • Stress Management for the Trauma Services Provider
  • TEAM: Team Evolution and Management
  • Terrorism: Psychological Impact and Implications
  • Understanding Human Violence: A Primer for Emergency Services Personnel & Counselors
  • Working with Victims of Individual and Mass Crimes

1 Day Programs

  • Best Practices for the CISM Instructor
  • Psychotraumatology For Clinicians: A Cognitive Therapeutic Approach
  • The Changing Face of Crisis and Disaster Mental Health Intervention: A Competency-based Update
  • Treatment of Complex PTSD

Click here for additional important information for those interested in pursuing a Certificate of Specialized Training.
Click here to print an application form and fees.

Last updated January, 2008