CRISIS Awarded Continuing Education Accreditation

This definition allows us to consider life events or situations that are not usually associated with trauma, and support people throughout a range of incidents and situations. It must be considered that what is ‘critical’ is unique and subjective to the individual who experiences it, and regardless of the event or incident believed to be causal in someone’s distress.

Whatever has happened, CRISIS can help move people from reaction to response.

Critical Incident Stress Intervention and Support (CRISIS) is a crisis intervention system for helping people when they have experienced a potentially overwhelming incident/event or situation.

The psychosocial nature of CRISIS means that ordinary people can be trained as Facilitators, in order to help other people in their organisations or social groups, providing immediate and effective support.

In short, CRISIS facilitator’s provide a supportive and humane response to the emotional and psychological needs of a fellow human beings when something bad has happened to them.

Who delivers CRISIS Schema®?

CRISIS facilitator’s don’t have to be clinically trained psychologists, psychotherapists, or counsellors. 

Rather, they can be caring professionals, practitioners, peers or volunteers who have can demonstrate trustworthiness, discretion and non-judgmental values, and are suitably placed to support colleagues or dependents in difficult times.
 
CRISIS facilitator’s are equipped with a robust tool-set with which to provide an effective support system for colleagues, clients or service users in emotional or psychological distress.

CRISIS  can be used by trained facilitators upon first contact with someone in distress.

Uniquely, CRISIS can be used both during and following a critical incident, and also to provide ongoing support for critical incidents that have thematic links.

By training as facilitators, your people will be able to spot the signs of traumatic reactions, and have the skills with which to provide timely and effective support.

No, CRISIS is a psychosocial system of crisis intervention, and therefore considered to be non-clinical.

CRISIS is simply a way of providing a powerful and supportive conversation designed to enhance and support natural processing and recovery. Within the CRISIS system, there is no analysis, interpretation, judgment or labelling. There is no diagnostic approach.

Neither can CRISIS be considered to be a form of ‘debriefing’ – the system’s psychodynamic theoretical construct, application, and (therefore) outcomes are significantly different to those of psychological debriefing.

CRISIS represents an evolutionary development within the field of crisis intervention and psychological first aid.

CRISIS is useful wherever there are people!

Here are a few key areas where CRISIS is particularly useful;

• Voluntary agencies
• Business
• Social work
• Emergency services
• Post terror/disaster recovery
• Community groups
• Clinical services
• Local authorities
• Criminal justice
• Travel industry
• Manufacture
• Construction
• Education
• Government
• Armed forces

The CRISIS workshop takes 2 days to successfully complete and become certified.

Those facilitators wishing to develop their skills to work with groups of people can then undertake the Group CRISIS workshop, which is a further 2 days of developmental learning.

For those wishing to coordinate the work of CRISIS teams there is a further option to develop to the role of CRISIS Coordinator®, which requires the completion of a further 1 day workshop.