Assisting Individuals in Crisis

This class has been cancelled until further notice.

This program is designed to teach participants the fundamentals of, and a specific protocol for, individual crisis intervention.

This course is designed for anyone who desires to increase their knowledge of individual (one-on-one) crisis intervention techniques in the fields of Business & Industry, Crisis Intervention, Disaster Response, Education, Emergency Services, Employee Assistance, Healthcare, Homeland Security, Mental Health, Military, Spiritual Care, and Traumatic Stress.

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 behavioral crisis reactions
• Putative and empirically-derived mechanisms
• SAFER-Revised model
• Suicide intervention
• Risks of iatrogenic “harm”

Continuing Education Information

• 13 CE Credits for Psychologists
• 13 PDHs for EAPs
• 13 CE Hours for California MFTs & LCSWs
• 13 CE Credits for National Certified Addiction Counselors
• OR 1.3 General CEUs from UMBC