You may download ICISF documents, pamphlets, handouts and brochures from the descriptions below. All the documents are in Adobe Acrobat format. 

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ICISF Information:

• CISM Team Registration Packet (Adobe Acrobat [.pdf] format.) CISM Team Registration Packet (Microsoft Word [.doc] format)  This form must be completed in its entirety and pages 7,8 and 9 must be submitted in their original format. 

• Hotline Team Information Form. For listing on the Hotline. Please use this form for changes and corrections to your team information with ICISF. Not for team registration.

• Hotline Brochure

• CISM Information Pamphlet

• Membership Application

• Certificate of Specialized Training 

  • Application

  • Check off list

  • Program Overview

• The ICISF Continuing Education Policy

Conference Calendar:

• Download a calendar of upcoming conferences

Conference Brochures:

• are listed on the Training Calendar page

Articles:

• Article: The Meaning of Assistance (html)
• The Meaning of Assistance (.pdf - Adobe Acrobat Format)

• Article: Psychological Trauma and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: A Review
• Article: Five Principles of Crisis Intervention: Reducing the Risk of Premature Crisis Intervention
• Article: Critical Incident Stress Management and the Assaulted Staff Action Program
• A relevant link: Helping Children Cope After Disaster
• Article: Crisis Intervention: A Review
• Article: Psychopharmacology and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
• Article / speech text:  WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION AND TERRORISM: MENTAL HEALTH CONSEQUENCES AND IMPLICATIONS FOR PLANNING AND TRAINING
  • Printable version in Adobe Acrobat format (.pdf)
• Article:  Bringing Your Debriefers Home After A Disaster: Debriefing the Debriefers
  • Printable version in Adobe Acrobat format (.pdf)
• Handout: The ICISF CISM Information Pamphlet  (Adobe Acrobat .pdf format)

• Article: Coordinating a Multiple Casualty Critical Incident Stress Management (CISM) Response Within a Medical/Surgical Hospital Setting (Adobe Acrobat .pdf format)

• Article: The Critical Incident Stress Debriefing Process for the Los Angeles County Fire Department: Automatic and Effective  (Adobe Acrobat .pdf format)

• Article: Coordination of Mental Health and Community Agencies in Disaster Response (Adobe Acrobat .pdf format)

• Article: Treating Family Survivors of Mass Casualties: A CISM Family Crisis Intervention Approach,  (Adobe Acrobat .pdf format)

• Handout:  Critical Incident Stress Information Sheet (Adobe Acrobat .pdf format) This is a combination of our "CIS Things to Try" page and our "Signs and Symptoms" page. Use the Adobe Acrobat format link if you wish to print and distribute this handout.
• Article:  The Debriefing Controversy (Adobe Acrobat .pdf format)
• Article:  Family Recovery From Terror, Grief and Trauma
  • Printable version in Adobe Acrobat format (.pdf)
• Article:  Pastoral Crisis Intervention: Toward a Definition
  • Printable version in Adobe Acrobat format (.pdf)

• Article:  The Role of Pastoral Crisis Intervention in Disasters, Terrorism, Violence, and Other Community Crises (Adobe Acrobat .pdf format)

• Article:  Crisis Management Briefings (CMB): Large Group Crisis Intervention in Response to Terrorism, Disasters, and Violence  (Adobe Acrobat .pdf format)
• Handout / article: Victim Identification and Family Support in Mass Casualties: The Massachusetts Model  (Adobe Acrobat .pdf format)
• Article: America Under Attack: The "10 Commandments" of Responding to Mass Terrorist Attacks  (Adobe Acrobat .pdf format)

• Handout / article:  Children's Reactions and Needs After Disaster

  • Printable version in Adobe Acrobat format (.pdf)

• Handout / article: Terror: How to Talk to Children
  • Printable version in Adobe Acrobat format (.pdf)
  • Note: There was a significant typo in this article which has been corrected as of 9/17/01, 14:30 hrs EDT.
• Article: It is Neither New Nor News