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Critical
Incident Stress Management
Dr. Willis is pleased to announce this addition to our service capabilities. Critical Incident Stress
Management (CISM), the emerging standard of care in crisis intervention, is an
intervention following workplace trauma or violence which mitigates its impact on
exposed employees and customers. It helps to reduce the stress and suffering
people typically experience after having been exposed to abnormally stressful events
including:
- Assault
- Terrorist attack
- Robbery
- Rape
- Exposure to any
life-threatening experience
- Death of a co-worker
- Organizational downsizing
- Threats of violence
- Vehicle fatality
- Witness to injury or fatal accident
- Explosion, fire or other
on-site workplace disaster
- Natural disaster
Trauma Response Services include
- Critical Incident
Stress Defusings and Critical Incident Stress Debriefings. Each follow a
prescribed intervention model (Mitchell & Everly) proven to be effective in accelerating
the process of recovery from a traumatizing event. It is commonly utilized by
emergency service organizations - police, fire, emergency medical services, ER
and ICU nurses, and disaster response personnel.
These services are now available
to your company.
- Trauma Response
Intervention Plan Development
- Individual Interventions
immediately following an incident can be offered to employees, supervisors,
managers, customers, witnesses, etc. utilizing the Acute Traumatic Stress
Management
(ATSM) model.
- Critical Incident Stress
Defusings (approximately
one hour in length) are offered within three - eight hours of the incident and
provide immediate on-site assistance to those in need.
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Critical Incident Stress
Debriefings (approximately three hours in length) are offered within three days of the incident and provide an
effective intervention which mitigates the long-term impact of a traumatic
event.
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Community
and Media Relations
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Grief
Counseling
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Short-term
Follow-up with employees, their families, supervisors, management
and others, as appropriate, can help to prevent future problems.
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Training Programs
Acute Traumatic Stress
Management (ATSM) - Acute Traumatic Stress Management is a crisis
intervention protocol developed for all emergency responders (police, fire,
emergency medical, school personnel, corporate medical/cisis teams, etc.).
It is designed to prepare emergency responders to address the emergent
psychological needs of individuals exposed to traumatic events and help
prevent acute traumatic stress reactions from becoming chronic stress
disorders. (One-day program)
Crisis Management: A Human Resource
Perspective -
Human resource
professionals must be prepared to lead their organizations through periods
of crisis. This workshop focuses on comprehensive pre-incident preparation
in such areas as employee relations, trauma response, and community
relations as the key to effective crisis management and the recovery
(individual employee and organizational) process. (One-day program)
Critical Incident Stress Management
(CISM) -
Critical Incident Stress Management is a comprehensive crisis response
program (to natural and man-made disasters, acts of violence, terrorism,
etc.) based on the Mitchell and Everly model. The program is designed to
reduce the frequency, duration, severity of and impairment from
psychological crises. This workshop covers each of the seven components of
this integrated, intervention system including Critical Incident Stress
Debriefings. (Two-day program)
Finally, though our
national affiliation, we can provide CISM services at any of your locations throughout the United States.
Dr. Willis has
completed extensive training in Critical Incident Stress Management (including
Basic CISM,
Advanced CISM, and the Assaulted Staff Action Program - ASAP) sponsored by the International
Critical Incident Stress Foundation Inc. Additionally, he is a professional
member of the American Academy of Experts in
Traumatic Stress and holds the designation, Board Certified Expert in
Traumatic Stress.
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