This advanced level course will enhance your skills to provide effective emotional and spiritual care 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 teams for appropriate care throughout the disaster continuum from the immediate to 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.
The class will run three evenings Tuesday-Thursday from 5PM-9PM, June 16th, 17th, 18th. There is a registration fee for this course, but the course is discounted if you are a member or friend of DCS. Download the flyer for more details.
Emotional & Spiritual Care in Disaster: June 16, 17, & 18 2009 in NYC [Download PDF]
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