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1. Rest-Information-Transition-Services
By: George S. Everly, Jr., PhD, ABPP, CCISM, Jeffrey T. Mitchell, PhD, CCISM
Equip your students with essential crisis response skills using this engaging video on Rest Intervention Transition Services (RITS) featuring the creator of C.I.S.M, Dr. Jeffrey Mitchell, and the co-founder of ICISF, Dr. George Everly.
Whether teaching crisis counseling, social work, psychology, or continuing education, this video demonstrates the RITS model for stabilizing and supporting emergency and military personnel in a large-scale operation or disaster.
It features real-world depictions of each stage of the approach for immediately de-escalating distress and facilitating connections to ongoing care.
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This training video provides instructors tools for teaching the crisis intervention skills of Rest Intervention Transition Services (RITS) to students across disciplines.
The RITS model for stabilizing and supporting emergency and military personnel in a large-scale operation or disaster is clearly depicted through expert demonstrations, modeling each phase of the RITS approach for immediately de-escalating distress and supporting safe transitions to ongoing care.
Whether you teach social work, counseling, psychology, nursing, emergency response, or continuing education, this adaptable video is perfect for augmenting lectures and class discussions on best practices for compassionate, effective crisis intervention, disaster response, and more. The RITS framework covers crucial competencies from responsively listening in the Rest phase to ensuring appropriate referrals during Transition.
This dynamic resource will build trainees’ confidence and capabilities for stabilizing crises and supporting emergency personnel and military populations.
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George S. Everly, Jr., PhD, ABPP, CCISM
George S. Everly, Jr., PhD, CCISM is an award-winning author and researcher. In 2016, he was ranked #1 published author in the world by PubMed PubReMiner in the field of crisis intervention. He holds appointments as Professor in the Department of International Health (affiliated) at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Associate Professor (part time) in Psychiatry at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, and Professor of Psychology at Loyola University in Maryland (core faculty). He is considered one of the founding fathers of the field of disaster mental health. He was a co-founder of the Dept of Psychiatry at Union Memorial Hospital and served on the management committee 12 years. In addition, he has served on the adjunct faculty of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the FBI’s National Academy at Quantico, Virginia, and ATF’s Peer Support Team. He is an advisor to the Hospital Authority of Hong Kong. Dr. Everly is co-founder of, and serves as a non-governmental representative to the United Nations for, the International Critical Incident Stress Foundation, a non-profit United Nations-affiliated public health and safety organization. He was Senior Advisor on Research in the Office of His Highness the Amir of Kuwait. Prior to these appointments, Dr. Everly was a Harvard Scholar, visiting in psychology, Harvard University; a Visiting Lecturer in Medicine, Harvard Medical School; and Chief Psychologist and Director of Behavioral Medicine for the Johns Hopkins Homewood Hospital Center.
Jeffrey T. Mitchell, PhD, CCISM
Jeffrey T. Mitchell, PhD, CCISM is Clinical Professor of Emergency Health Services at the University of Maryland in Baltimore County, Maryland. He is a member of the Graduate Faculty of the University of Maryland. He is a co-founder and President Emeritus of the International Critical Incident Stress Foundation. He earned his Ph.D. in Human Development from the University of Maryland. He served for six years as a regional coordinator of Emergency Medical Services for the Maryland Institute for Emergency Medical Services Systems. He was responsible for the development of the Emergency Medical Services System in five southern Maryland counties. After serving as volunteer paramedic / firefighter for ten years, he developed a comprehensive, integrated, systematic, and multi-component crisis intervention program called “Critical Incident Stress Management.” Today, that program reduces traumatic stress in many countries.
He has authored more than 275 articles and 19 books in the stress and crisis intervention fields. He serves as an adjunct faculty member of the Emergency Management Institute of the Federal Emergency Management Agency. He is a faculty member of Florida Institute of Technology and teaches a course on the psychology of disasters. Dr. Mitchell is a faculty member in the school of education, Johns Hopkins University. He is a reviewer for the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), Disaster Medicine, the Journal of Emergency Medical Services (JEMS) and the International Journal of Emergency Mental Health. He received the Austrian Red Cross Bronze Medal for his work in Crisis Intervention in the aftermath of the Kaprum, Austria train tunnel fire. The Association of Traumatic Stress Specialists approved Dr. Mitchell as a Certified Trauma Specialist.
The United Nations appointed him to the United Nations Department of Safety and Security Working Group on Stress. He has consulted on stress, crisis, and trauma topics in 28 nations and in every one of the 50 United States.
Director: Austin Steo / Mainstream Media, Inc.
Producer: Mainstream Media, Inc.
Contributors: George S. Everly, Jr., PhD, ABPP, CCISM
Jeffrey T. Mitchell, PhD, CCISM
Andi Everly
Anne Arundel County Police Department CISM Team
File Format: MP4
File Size: 2.43 GB
Video Length: 25min 17sec
Time Codes:
00:22 CISM Introduction and RITS summary by Dr. George S. Everly, Jr.
03:40 RITS Introduction with Details by Dr. Jeffrey T. Mitchell
07:28 Critical Incident Summary
08:37 RITS Demonstration
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