Assisting Individuals in Crisis

Service Description

Crisis Intervention is a specialized emergency mental health intervention that targets the response NOT the event. This course is designed to teach participants the fundamentals of, and a specific protocol for, individual (one-on-one) peer support crisis intervention. This is a 2 day ICISF certification course. Contact for available dates to arrange private registration within your agency or organization. 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 behavioural crisis reactions * Putative and empirically-derived mechanisms * SAFER-Revised model * Suicide intervention