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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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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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ICISF Quick Reference Cards
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Our popular CISM Quick Reference Cards consist of a set of 5 cards with Intervention reminders. Each card provides a basic outline for the use of a different CISM Intervention.

Please note: Unlike our Print-on-Demand books which are shipped from our printer's facilities, our Quick Reference Cards are shipped once a week from our ICISF office in Maryland, which is why you may receive them in a separate package. A shipping and handling fee is included in the sales price for domestic shipments.

 

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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The Secrets of Resilient Leadership
When Failure is Not an Option
Author: George S. Everly, Jr., PhD, ABPP, CCISM, Author: Douglas A. Strouse, PhD, Author: George S. Everly, III, JD, MBA
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Organizations that can adapt to change and bounce back from adversity will not only survive, they will grow during times of crisis, but it will require a special type of leadership…Resilient Leadership.

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