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8:00am – 8:30am
Opening Ceremony, including an Honor Guard & presentation of colors & welcomes by Dr. George S. Everly, Jr. & Dr. Jeffrey T. Mitchell.      
 

8:30am – 9:15am
Keynote Presentation
Assessment and Intervention Following Disaster, War and Terrorism
Col. E. Cameron Ritchie, MD 
 

9:15am – 9:30am
Resealing Pandora's Box: Psychological Counterterrorism
George S. Everly, Jr., PhD, FAPM, CTS, Cherie Castellano, MA, LPC, AAETS

Terrorism represents psychological warfare. Examine the nature of terrorism, ten factors of psychological toxicity and how the principles of psychological counterterrorism can be used in response.
 

9:30am – 10:00am|
Journalism and Trauma
David Handschuh

Iraq, Afghanistan, 9/11... these events have changed the world for everyone, including journalists. Fire fighters, police officers and emergency services run towards danger while others run away. On the heels of the first responders are journalists who, as a community, have not developed the resources for coping with what they pay witness to.  

David Handschuh, a news photographer seriously injured at the WTC on 9/11, will discuss the affect of covering trauma on journalists and the limited resources available for their healing.

10:00am - 10:45am
The CISM Response to the RI Station Nightclub Fire
Anne Balboni, PsyD

The fire at The Station Nightclub in February 2003 had a large impact on the smallest state, taking the lives of 100 people and injuring over 300. The Rhode Island CISM TEAM’s response will be discussed and lessons learned will be shared.
 

11:15am – 12:00am
The Assaulted Staff Action Program (ASAP): Fifteen Years of Empirical Findings
Raymond B. Flannery, Jr., PhD

The Assaulted Staff Action Program (ASAP) is a CISM approach for staff victims of patient assaults. It includes individual, group, and family-victim crisis interventions as well as staff victim support groups and private referrals, as indicated. ASAP appears to be the longest, continuous, published crisis intervention program in the world. ASAP’s fifteen-year findings from 1990-2005 will be presented and their implications will be examined.
 

12:00pm – 12:45pm
WWII Survivors: Lessons in Resilience
Glenn R. Schiraldi, PhD

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 2005
8:00am – 12:30pm

8:00am – 8:30am
Project Liberty: Lessons Learned from the NY Mental Health Response to 9/11/01
April J. Naturale, MSW, LCSW, ACSW

This presentation discusses the mental health response work carried out by the New York State Office of Mental Health's Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) funded Crisis Counseling Assistance and Training Program that ran from September 12, 2001 through December 31, 2004. The outreach strategies utilized to reach high risk and closed cultures will be described along with service volume data.
 

8:30am – 9:00am
Keynote Presentation

Planning for the Expected & the Unexpected: Making Policy on Prevention, Intervention & Recovery
Daniel Dodgen, PhD

Taking a national perspective, this presentation will focus on policy issues related to planning for all hazards, including unexpected events--such as natural disasters or terrorist attacks--and planned events--such as the Olympics or presidential nominating conventions.  Policies related to advance planning, prevention, early intervention, and recovery phases will be considered.
 

9:00am – 9:30am
Hurricane Fabian Bermuda
Doris DeCosta, CSW, CEAP, Inspector Tracy Adams, Detective Sgt. Mark Clarke, Chief Inspector (Ret.) Roger Kendall

Presentation focuses on the experiences of the island’s two CISM teams assisting in the recovery effort after a category five hurricane (Hurricane Fabian). Emphasis will be placed on dealing with the island’s first line of duty deaths, coordinating and planning for two teams, issues related to small island communities, CISM approaches, and ICISF's contribution in assisting the teams.
 

9:30am – 10:00am
Staff Counseling in the UN
Ruth Sembajwe

Examines the management of crisis in a multicultural setting. The system that is in place to prepare for crisis, the importance of maintaining the competency base, follow-up communication, follow-up with clients, developing tailor-made programs, on-going sensitization, monitoring and evaluation will be covered.
 

10:30am – 11:15am

A Prospective Cohort Study of the Effectiveness of Employer-Sponsored Crisis Interventions after a Major Disaster

Joseph A Boscarino, PhD, MPH, Charles R. Figley, PhD
 

The focus of this study was to examine the impact of brief mental health crisis interventions received at the worksite following the World Trade Center disaster among a random sample of 1,681 New York City adults. Results indicate that worksite crisis interventions offered by employers had a beneficial impact across a spectrum of outcomes, including reduced risks for binge drinking, alcohol dependence, PTSD symptoms, major depression, somatization, anxiety, and global impairment up to 2 years afterwards, compared with individuals who did not receive these interventions.

11:15am – 11:45am
Statistical Review of Evidence-Based Crisis Intervention
Albert R. Roberts, PhD, DABFE,  Michael J. Camasso, PhD, George S. Everly Jr., PhD, FAPM, CTS

Clear guidelines and standards of care for all crisis responders need to be developed and implemented based on a systematic review of the evidence. Presenters discuss findings of a meta-analysis of published journal articles; frequently used crisis intervention protocols and their effect size measures; implications of statistical analyses of 42 crisis intervention studies; and limitations and methodological flaws of the current research knowledge base on crisis intervention. The results of the presenters’ meta-analysis will provide policy makers and administrators with comparative data on successful and unsuccessful crisis intervention programs, based on the best available controlled and quasi-controlled studies.    
 

11:45am – 12:30pm

Preventing Second Assaults in the Walking Wounded
Carolyn V. Coarsey, PhD

All survivors of disaster have basic needs that first responders are trained and ready to meet. Yet, 19 years of interviewing survivors of airline crashes, rail disasters and others, have produced numerous examples of “walking wounded” survivors whose basic needs of emotional safety and connection are not met. Presenter will provide examples of how these second assaults can be prevented.
 

SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 2005
8:00am – 12:15pm

8:00am – 8:30am

New Jersey Disaster Critical Incident Stress Response

Capt. Lou Mascioli (ret.)
 

Presenter will discuss three-year project of lessons learned and best practices for direct assistance to the Urban Search and Rescue (Task Force One); assistance to NJ State Police for disasters; and coordination of the State Office of Emergency Management.

8:30am – 9:00am
Examination of the Effects of CISM Defusing Interventions on Fire/Rescue Professionals
J. De Gaglia, PhD, LMHC, EMT-B, Kim Saiswick, EdD, RN, LMHC, Paul Schweinler, MDiv, NCC, LMHC

Presents research performed with the assistance of fire/rescue professionals within the State of Florida. Results are based on a thorough examination of CISM Defusing Interventions involving both a Pre- and Post- format as well as interview follow-ups.
 

9:00am – 9:30am
Hurricane Isabel: The Emotional Clean-Up
Cheryl M. Leonard, MPA, EMT, SERT, Deborah L. Leonard, MPA, SERT

Presenters describe their approach to the emotional clean-up during and after the Hurricane Isabel crisis. Examine the coordination and deployment of teams during a crisis to address the emotional needs of emergency personnel. “Off the record" tips will be shared that shape the CISM response following a specific event such as Hurricane Isabel. Methods for handling the cumulative effects of multiple prior traumatic events that required long-term responses will also be addressed.
 

10:30am – 11:15am
CISM Response Following Loss of the Shuttle Columbia
Roger M. Solomon, PhD, Jacqueline E. Reese, MA, LPC, Patricia J. Bell, MA

On February 1, 2003 the Shuttle Columbia broke apart during descent. Presenters discuss the implementation of the CISM model at Johnson Space Center and Kennedy Space Center by the in house EAP program/CISM team and examine the model of intervention and how it was implemented. Outcome data from trauma surveys is currently being collected and will be presented. 
 

11:15am – 11:45am
State Sponsored Training for a Disaster Mental Health Volunteer Corps
Michael J. Kaminsky, MD, MBA

After 9/11, the government realized that a “surge capacity” gap existed in the provision of mental health services for disaster victims and began to fund training for volunteers. Presenter will focus on the curriculum developed by Maryland with its two academic medical centers and will describe the decisions made for psychological first-aid in the acute phase with a population orientation and exposure therapy for the chronic phase with patient orientation.
 

11:45am – 12:15pm
A New Paradigm for Best Practices: "Resistance-Resililence-Recovery"
George S. Everly, Jr., PhD, FAPM, CTS, Jeffrey T. Mitchell, PhD, CTS