Any given crisis can be contagious! Any person who is part of a family unit and who has been affected by a crisis, trauma, or disaster brings the crisis home to the members of the family. The crisis can spread to family members directly through abuse, abandonment, neglect or indirectly through isolation, withdrawal and the like. Family support services should be part of any truly integrated CISM program. Its absence clearly weakens the potential CISM effectiveness. Critical incident stress management with families is a complex topic with specific issues that need to be addressed when working with families.

This course is vital for CISM teams, emergency service professionals, their spouses, significant others, families, organizational leaders, mental health professionals and clergy to establish and maintain an essential family component to CISM network systems. ICISF’s “Group Crisis Intervention” should be viewed as prerequisite and “Individual Crisis Intervention and Peer Support” is recommended.

 

Course Highlights

Family & Services Needed

Family Stress: Types, Sources, and Effects

What is a “Crisis” for a Family

Family CISM vs. Standard CISM

Introduction of the “Example Population”

Program Development

Education and Information Programs

CISM Family Interventions

Working with the “Immediate Family”

Children and Trauma

Completion of “Families and CISM: Developing A Comprehensive Program” and receipt of a certificate indicating full attendance (14 Contact Hours) qualifies as a course in ICISF’s Certificate of Specialized Training Program.

 

Continuing Education Information

Two-Day Course: 8:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m., 14 Contact Hours; 14 CE Credits for Psychologists; 14 PDHs for EAPs; 14 CE Hours for Calif. MFTs & LCSWs; 14 Contact Hours for National Certified Addiction Counselors; OR 1.4 general CEUs from UMBC

Continuing education information listed is only applicable when attending an ICISF Regional Conference.