PRE CRISIS PREPARATION

"This includes stress management education, stress resistance, and crisis mitigation training for both individuals and organizations. " (Everly G.S.  and Mitchell, J .T.  (1997) A Primer on CISM.  www.icisf.org).

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Stress Management Articles suitable as handouts may be found here.

An ACT CISM Workplace Stress Management Course.  If you send us an email answering the two written exercises, we will send you a certificate of completion (by mail in Australia only).

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World Health Organisation Media Fact Sheet 220 (November 2001) Strengthening Mental Health Promotion.

Auseinet informs, educates and promotes good practice in a range of  sectors and the community about mental health promotion, prevention, early intervention and suicide prevention across the lifespan.…  http://auseinet.flinders.edu.au/

The APA kindly reprinted Meichenbaum, D. (1996). Stress inoculation training for coping with stressors. The Clinical Psychologist, 49, 4-7.
http://www.apa.org/divisions/div12/rev_est/sit_stress.html   

For further articles see also www.aaets.org/index.html

DISASTER INTERVENTIONS

"Disaster or large-scale incident, as well as, school and community support programs including demobilizations, informational briefings, "town meetings" and staff advisement."  (Everly G.S.  and Mitchell, J .T.  (1997) A Primer on CISM.  www.icisf.org).

DEFUSING

"Defusing. This is a 3-phase, structured small-group discussion provided within hours of a crisis for purposes of assessment, triaging, and acute symptom mitigation."  (Everly G.S.  and Mitchell, J .T.  (1997) A Primer on CISM.  www.icisf.org).

CRITICAL INCIDENT STRESS DEBRIEFING (CISD)
This is the "7-phase, structured group discussion, usually provided 1 to 10 days post crisis, and designed to mitigate acute symptoms, assess the need for follow-up, and if possible provide a sense of post-crisis psychological closure."  (Everly G.S.  and Mitchell, J .T.  (1997) A Primer on CISM.  www.icisf.org). 
ACT CISM recommends reading primary source articles on this topic.

INDIVIDUAL CRISIS INTERVENTION

FOLLOW UP AND REFERRAL
The links below have many references and handouts for post-critical
incident care and support.

The ICISF Page on Articles and Resources has many relevant documents and handouts. URL http://www.icisf.org/

Visit Emergency Management Australia  for resources & links.
URL http://www.ema.gov.au

The US National Center for PTSD. 
Huge resource for PTSD.   Includes access to the PILOTS Database - references and abstracts on published works PTSD.  URL   http://www.ncptsd.va.gov/

International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies (ISTSS)
"This site contains post disaster handouts. 
URL   http://www.istss.org/

David Baldwin's Trauma Information Pages
Excellent resource site:  information, links, handouts.
URL   http://www.trauma-pages.com/