Open Course | Post Critical Incident Stress Debrief Facilitator Training | 10TH, 11TH, 12TH June 2025

Post Critical Incident Stress Debrief Facilitator training is now being delivered via live webinar as well as onsite face to face training to organisations across the United Kingdom. This training ensures the safeguarding and support of employees facing ongoing or extremely stressful, traumatic or critical incidents. This course is run over 3 days.

Prior to attending the first day, learners will be need to complete the pre-course reading which should take 2 – 3 hour for contemplating and filling in pre-course assessments.

ASSESSMENT:

Formative assessment – Quizzes & MCQ’s throughout the course

Summative assessment – Assessment of the simulated post critical incident stress debrief

COURSE DESCRIPTION

Post incident stress management (PISM) comprises a range of crisis intervention services that include:

• PRE-CRISIS MANAGEMENT (stress prevention and management) both individual and at organisational level
• INTRA-CRISIS MANAGEMENT (individual crisis counselling often referred to as psychological first aid)
• POST-CRISIS MANAGEMENT (group debriefing of a homogenous group (people who have been through the same critical incident together), and post-incident referral for 1-1 counselling for those still suffering from symptoms following a critical incident.
• Acute stress is a body’s normal reaction to an abnormal event.                
• Normalisation of the traumatised person/s experience, and validation of their experiences and responses is a critical goal of this programme as well as identifying those that require referral for further assistance.                                                      
• It is important for organisations to have systems in place to deal with critical incidents and the subsequent distress and disorder in order to create a healthy work ethos and environment during and after critical incidents.

The course is intended for two purposes:

• Where a major incident has occurred at work, e.g. multiple deaths, an assault, a suicide of a patient or a colleague, hostage-taking of a patient or colleagues, murder, witnessing or being involved in terrible accidents, etc
• Where a major incident has occurred in the locality, “beyond the scope of business-as-usual operations” e.g. infectious disease outbreak, an explosion at work, a terrorist act, a power outage, a natural disaster such as a flood, airplane crash, damaged building, rising flood water

TARGET AUDIENCE

• Health care professionals (doctors, nurses, occupational therapists, first responders – paramedics, fire fighters, police, etc)
• Mental health professionals (Social workers, Psychologists, Therapists, Welfare Officers, Wellness/Wellbeing Managers, EAP personnel, etc)
• Workplace Professionals (Managers, Human Resource personnel, Occupational Health & Safety personnel, Educators, etc).
• Religious personnel (Chaplains, Pastoral counsellors, Ministers, etc.)
• Organizations who desire to promote and ensure a fundamental and standardized knowledge base among its personnel who respond to crisis and trauma,
• Any other professionals involved in the care of individuals and groups following traumatic incidents.

The course runs from 09:30 – 16:30 daily.

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