CISM Application With Children

Instructor: Anne Balboni

FACT SHEET

CISM Application with Children is a comprehensive examination of how effective crisis intervention and management with children and adolescents can be provided. This two-day course will offer practical guidelines based on recent research for assessment, crisis intervention, and treatment including developmental responses and reactions to trauma and grief. Pertinent information regarding cultural diversity, legal and ethical considerations will also be offered.

Participants will role-play specific crisis scenarios to practice assessment and intervention techniques and will experience art and play techniques often used with traumatized children and adolescents.

Upon completion, participants will be able to:

Recognize high-risk traumatized children for appropriate crisis therapy referral;

List ways to mitigate traumatic stress symptomatology through correct and ethical crisis intervention which is sensitive to child’s developmental age, and developmental coping mechanisms;

Recognize and address trauma and grief symptomatologies without retraumatizing the child;

Formulate crisis response plans within the CISM team to quickly and appropriately respond in cooperation with school communities;

Recognize and understand children’s develop-mental coping mechanisms; and

Identify the steps in conducting debriefings for adolescent suicide deaths.

CISM Application with Children provides excellent foundational knowledge in crisis intervention and Emergency Mental Health skills for those interested in working with children and adolescents in crisis and for those interested in the companion workshop: School Crisis Response: A CISM Perspective.

This course is 15 contact hours.