CISM: Emotional and Spiritual Care in Disasters
The class is now full. If you would like to be put on a waiting list in case an opening becomes available please contact Meghan Graham at meghan@iacrt.com Thank you
Free course thanks to a grant from Midwestern State University, TX
This advanced-level course will enhance your skills to provide effective emotional and spiritual care (ESC) to meet the disaster-related needs of disaster responders and disaster-affected families and individuals within disaster operations. This course builds on the crisis intervention principles taught in the Critical Incident Stress Management (CISM) core courses to effectively integrate these principles within ESC teams for appropriate care throughout the disaster continuum from the immediate to the long-term recovery process.
This course is designed for trained clergy, chaplains, mental health professionals, and CISM-trained crisis responders who desire to enhance their skills in providing Emotional and Spiritual Care to survivors of disaster and trauma.
Suggested but not mandatory prerequisites: Individual Crisis Intervention & Peer Support; Group Crisis Intervention; Pastoral Crisis Intervention.
Course Highlights
- One’s own faith tradition and ESC
- ESC & the Incident Command System
- ESC & disaster relief operations
- The physical, psychological, and emotional impact of disasters
- The behavioral, interpersonal, and spiritual impact of disasters
- Range of ESC interventions in the aftermath
- Suitability to provide ESC
- Maintaining health during deployment
- Deployment of personal care plans
- Intervention and caregiving concepts
Bookings
This event is fully booked.