Peer Para-Counseling
Enhancing Peer Support Skills for Effective Crisis Management
Course Description
Today, we face a unique blend of stressors and disasters with limited psychological resources. The Critical Incident Stress Management (CISM) continuum offers strategic crisis responses to high-risk populations, holistically building their resilience. Crisis Informed Peer Para-Counseling (CIPP) enhances peer counselors’ support tools, enabling them to collectively cope with trauma and disasters. CIPP serves as the one-on-one follow-up service to Critical Incident Stress Debriefing (CISD). This approach addresses the increasing need for strategic crisis responses, expanding peer counselors’ capabilities to build resilience in at-risk populations.
Prerequisites: Assisting Individuals in Crisis AND Group Crisis Intervention OR GRIN - Assisting Individuals & Group Crisis Intervention (3-day course)
Learning Objectives
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Learn what the Crisis Informed Peer Para-Counseling (CIPP) model is
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Understand key terms used in peer support and crisis intervention
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Why the CISM model of assisting individuals in crisis works to lessen the impact of a traumatic event
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Enhance skills in SAMSHA peer para counseling eight dimensions guidelines. Review Empathy versus Sympathy as a core principal of connection-Theresa Wiseman/Four Principles of Empathy- Perspective Taking/ Stay out of judgement, recognize emotions, communication.
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Define mental health, addiction, and trauma-related disorders
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Basic crisis communication techniques
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Understand the role of peers as prevention educators
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Learn what Psychological First Aid is
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Identify national, state, and community resources for behavioral health and human services
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Define a CIPP episode of care
Two-Day Course
Participants will receive an ICISF Certificate of Attendance that offers general Continuing Education Units (CEUs) from by University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) Department of Emergency Health Services Professional and Continuing Education (PACE)
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