Advanced Group Crisis Intervention
Advanced Group Crisis Intervention
By: Jeffrey T. Mitchell, PhD, CCISM
This is the official course manual for the ICISF Advanced Core Course "Advanced Group Crisis Intervention" and is only sold to course participants who wish to purchase a printed copy in addition to their eBook or who need a replacement of their original manual. Please reach out to cismbooks@icisf.org listing the reason you need to purchase this manual and providing a copy of your course certificate. We will then be able to send you a purchase link.
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This is the official course manual for the ICISF Advanced Core Course "Advanced Group Crisis Intervention" and is only sold to course participants who wish to purchase a printed copy in addition to their eBook or who need a replacement of their original manual. Please reach out to cismbooks@icisf.org listing the reason you need to purchase this manual and providing a copy of your course certificate. We will then be able to send you a purchase link.
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.