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Assisting Individuals in Crisis

General course description
Assisting individuals in Crisis will be of particular interest for your peers. The two-day course introduces the SAFER-R model of
which you are aware is being used by a range of emergency services. This program is designed to teach participants the
fundamentals of, and a specific protocol for, individual intervention. Topics include the role of crisis intervention in a comprehensive CISM program, terms and concepts, traumatic and crisis intervention, crisis communication techniques, psychological reactions to crisis and trauma, SAFER-R protocol and common problems encountered while working with individuals in crisis.

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Compassion Fatigue: Restoring the Balance

General course description
This one day workshop will provide participants with a creative opportunity to take time out to reflect on their personal and
professional experiencing of living and working in today’s world. Content includes: current theories of compassion fatigue, burnout, vicarious traumatisation, exploring the impact of compassion fatigue and reflecting systemically on the interface between personal and professional roles and commitments.

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Group Crisis Intervention

General course description
The CISM: Group Crisis Intervention training program presents the core elements of a comprehensive, systematic and multicomponent crisis intervention curriculum. This two-day course prepares participants to understand a wide range of crisis
intervention services including pre and post incident crisis education, crisis intervention for individuals, demobilisations and crisis
management briefings after large scale traumatic incidents, and small group defusings and debriefings. The need for appropriate
follow-up services and referrals when necessary is also described. The course prepares individuals to provide these interventions.

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Pastoral Crisis Intervention

General course description
Pastoral Crisis Intervention may be thought of as the combination of faith-based resources with traditional techniques of crisis
intervention. Pastoral crisis intervention represents a powerful addition to traditional community and organisational psychological
support resources. The purpose of this two-day workshop is to assist participants in learning how pastoral crisis intervention and
traditional psychological crisis intervention may be effectively integrated. Chaplains, pastoral counsellors, mental health
professionals, ministers and anyone interested in the use of faith-based resources in healing should find this course of value.

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Strategic Responses to Crisis

General course description
Effective early intervention programs need to know what sequence of crisis intervention processes to use, for which individuals or
groups, at what times and under what circumstances. Topics in this two-day course include: assessing both crisis situations and
the effects of critical incidents on people involved in those situations, effective plans of action to assist, strategically plan and use
tactical decision making with emphasis as rationales for choosing one set of crisis intervention process over another, sequence
processing as well as a series of exercises designed to sharpen assessment and crisis planning skills.

This course is jointly presented by CISMFA and Caraniche.

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Suicide Prevention Intervention & Support

General course description
Why do people kill themselves? How do I ask someone if they are feeling suicidal? What do I do if they say they ARE suicidal?
How do I deal with the strong emotions suicide generates? This two-day training will consider these and other questions that
people commonly ask about suicide. It will provide participants with basic information about suicide. This course is also designed
to help develop practical skills for prevention, intervention and support for those impacted by suicide. It provides educational
briefing that can be given to local agencies.

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