Critical Incident Stress Management
Programme Aim
The aim of this programme is to provide learners with an awareness of workplace critical incident stress and to develop key competencies, skills and knowledge in the field of managing and responding appropriately to critical/traumatic incidents across a wide and diverse range of occupational contexts. It addresses the important issue of protecting the psychological health and safety of workers in occupational groups likely to be exposed to critical incidents during the course of their work.
Dates
- 7th, 8th, 11th, 12th and 13th Sept 2017
Duration
5 Days
Venue
Boardroom, Dargan Centre, IT Carlow, Kilkenny Road, Carlow
Programme Details
- The History of CISM
- Legal Imperatives on employers
- Psychosocial Risk assessment
- Research Context for variety of occupational groups
- Key CISM Interventions and Core Components
International Critical Incident Stress Foundation (ICISF) Individual and Group support interventions:
- Psychological crisis and psychological crisis intervention
- Resistance, resiliency, recovery continuum
- Evidence-based practice
- Basic crisis communication techniques
- Common psychological and behavioural crisis reactions
- Putative and empirically-derived mechanisms
- SAFER-Revised model
- Suicide intervention
- Large group crisis interventions
- Small group crisis interventions
- Adverse outcome associated with crisis intervention
- Critical Incident Stress Debriefing (CISD)
- Strategic Planning for CISM
Assessment
The programme will be assessed through a combination of take home assignments and in-class practical walk-through exercises.
Certification
The programme is accredited by the Institute of Technology Carlow. Additional certification will be provided by ICISF on completion of the peer and group intervention exercises.
Entry level Requirements
Applicants must hold a level 7 qualification or may be accepted onto the programme through RPL with significant knowledge of CISM in the workplace.
Closing Date
Apply online before 24th August 2017
Application Form
Extended Campus Application Form
