What is Critical Incident Stress Management (CISM)?

According to Dr Jeffrey Mitchell, Critical Incident Stress Management is "a comprehensive, systematic and integrated multi-tactic crisis intervention approach to manage critical incident stress after traumatic events."   
"The primary focus in the field of CISM is to support staff members of organizations or members of communities which have experienced a traumatic event."

Articles about CISM can be viewed at www.icisf.org - the site of the International CISM peak organisation.  (A link to our national peak organisation may be found below).

If you would like to know more about CISM in Australia, or further upcoming events contact the peak Australian CISM organisation:
Critical Incident Stress Management Foundation Australia Inc. 

CISMFA, PO Box 554, Carlton South VIC 3053.  Phone: 61 3 9663 7999

CISM has 7 core components (see diagram below).  In each of these areas there are a number of different pro-active and reactive strategies.   This website has pages in the CISM Tool Box to provide some resources in each of these areas.