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WELCOME TO CISMbooks – YOUR BOOKSTORE FOR CISM RESOURCES

An appetite for learning offers a healthy craving. The ICISF is pleased to help you satisfy the desire to learn more about Critical Incident Stress and techniques to help people who face such trauma. This bookstore offers you the opportunity to gain more, supplementing the training programs and knowledge offered by the ICISF.

Please explore the titles and authors we now offer in this store; and keep visiting to discover additional products as they become available. We are just getting started with this venture, building a new resource to feed your appetite for learning. We invite you to become part of this journey.

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Field Guide Series
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Duty, Honor, Hope
Strategies for Understanding & Unpacking First Responder Grief
Author: Beth L. Hewett, PhD, CT, CCISM, CEOLS
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In Duty, Honor, Hope: Strategies for Understanding and Unpacking First Responder Grief, Dr. Beth L. Hewett uses the lived experiences of 21 first responders, offering a practical approach to a subject many people don’t discuss: grief, grieving, and intentional mourning.
Griefs stemming from critical incidents often go unmourned, accumulating and stacking up, and eventually overflowing. She teaches a first response action approach to address stacked up griefs and prevent them from reaccumulating.

The beautiful cover artwork "Returning to Light" was painted by Shawn McCowell.

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Critical Incident Stress Management (CISM) & Psychological Crisis Intervention
A Practical Review of Research
Author: George S. Everly, Jr., PhD, ABPP, CCISM
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Do you find research in the fields of psychological crisis intervention and disaster mental health confusing? Well, it is! But just because it’s confusing doesn’t mean it’s not important… it’s critical in policy formation, program development, and practical application. This practical guide to understanding research relevant to CISM is essential reading for anyone working in any aspect of emergency mental health and disaster response.

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Psychological Body Armor™
Lessons from Neuroscience That Can Save Your Career, Your Marriage, and Your Life
Author: George S. Everly, Jr., PhD, ABPP, CCISM
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Resilience is the ability to bounce back from adversity. But imagine if there was a way to "immunize" yourself from the stress of adversity. First responders, first receivers, disaster responders, public health professionals, and military members, to mention a few, are exposed to situations that can cause physical injury. As a result, they wear physical body armor and PPE for protection. At the same time, they are exposed to situations that can cause psychological injury. Shouldn't they also learn to use Psychological Body Armor™ for protection? Based on the latest relevant science, this book shows you how.

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The Resilient Child
Seven Essential Lessons and Practical Tips for Building Happiness, Success, and Social Intelligence
Author: George S. Everly, Jr., PhD, ABPP, CCISM
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April is Month of the Military Child!
CISMbooks celebrates our military children with $4 off "The Resilient Child". No coupon code needed, discount applied automatically during checkout.

How many children suffer because they were never taught to handle the stress of competition, bullying, and the pressure to fit in? Stress, depression, and anxiety are epidemic amongst children today. More than any other life skill, resilience may be the most important and yet most frequently overlooked skill for children and teenagers to learn. This book is a practical guide to teaching them how to thrive in times of challenge, adversity, and even failure.

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Critical Incident Stress Debriefing (CISD) & Defusing
Author: Jeffrey T. Mitchell, PhD, CCISM, Author: George S. Everly, Jr., PhD, ABPP, CCISM
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Critical Incident Stress Debriefing (CISD) & Defusing serves as a practical field guide, in digest and outline form, for providing psychological intervention to groups. These two interactive group crisis intervention tactics are most effective at restoring unit cohesion and unit performance in homogeneous groups.

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Critical Incident Stress Management (CISM): A Practical Review
Author: George S. Everly, Jr., PhD, ABPP, CCISM, Author: Jeffrey T. Mitchell, PhD, CCISM, Author: DanSun PhotoArt
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This volume represents the latest available review of the core concepts, intervention tactics, and research on Critical Incident Stress Management (CISM).
It includes sample questions to enhance your knowledge of CISM, which will help to prepare you for Certification in Critical Incident Stress Management (CCISM) through the University of Maryland Baltimore County's certification examination.

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Strategic Planning
Crisis Intervention and Disaster Mental Health Applications
Author: George S. Everly, Jr., PhD, ABPP, CCISM, Author: Jeffrey T. Mitchell, PhD, CCISM
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Strategic Planning – Crisis Intervention and Disaster Mental Health Applications serves as a practical field guide for developing a strategic plan for organizing various tactical psychological and disaster mental health interventions in the most effective and efficient manner.

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Supporting a Grieving Workforce Front Cover Supporting a Grieving Workforce
Author: Beth L. Hewett, PhD, CT, CCISM, CEOLS, Author: Richard Ottenstein, PhD, CEAP, CTS
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Grief hurts. Bereavement specialist Dr. Beth Hewett joins the Workplace Trauma Center's Dr. Richard Ottenstein to look honestly at supporting a grieving workforce suffering losses from the COVID-19 pandemic, other illnesses, violence, or accidents.

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The SAFER-R Model
Psychological Crisis Intervention
Author: George S. Everly, Jr., PhD, ABPP, CCISM, Author: Jeffrey T. Mitchell, PhD, CCISM
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The SAFER-R ModelPsychological Crisis Intervention serves as a practical field guide to the SAFER-R model of psychological first aid (PFA). It is written in digest and outline form, for providing psychological crisis intervention to individuals. This guide is designed for use by emergency services and military peer support, educators, medical and nursing professionals, as well as mental health clinicians.

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