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Courses:
Mental Illness: Signs, Symptoms,
and Interventions
Victim Crisis Intervention
Pricing
Articles:
Deseret
News Editorial: Mental-health Intervention Vital
PoliceOne
News: Indiana Officers' Deaths Lead To Calls For Better Mental Health
Services
ReintegrationToday: Consumers
and the Criminal Justice System
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What would it mean to communities and
first responders in those communities if they could…
- Better assess and more beneficially interact with the mentally
ill and victims of crisis?
- Reduce injuries to first responders, mentally ill persons, crisis
victims, and bystanders?
- Reduce or even eliminate the development of probable anxiety
and depressive disorders by starting to help the afflicted persons
at the scene instead of waiting for future counseling to repair completed
damage?
- Reduce thereby the lost time at work, incidence of divorce, alcohol
and drug abuse and physical illness resulting from such disorders?
Police officers and other first responders have a unique
challenge in their daily routine; they must be on alert and ready to
respond to any type of situation, crisis or trauma at a moment's notice.
They must be ready to make quick and correct decisions in those moments,
to protect the well being of the people involved, including themselves.
The goal of our two types of workshops is to provide officers
and other first responders with a basic understanding of the major mental
illnesses, and the anxiety and other mood disorders caused by traumatic
events, and how these manifest themselves in a number of different situations.
Most police, fire, and EMT academy and in-service training is woefully
inadequate in preparing their personnel in these matters. Participants
in our workshops explore and learn to identify the major types of psychiatric
disorders, the symptoms and most typical behaviors associated with each,
and the interventions first responders can use to most effectively manage
the mentally ill persons they encounter in the course of their work
and reduce the psychological damage being suffered by crisis victims.
This training is presented at the attendees' location of choice rather
than requiring attendees to travel to the presenter's central location.
The goal is to train every member of each staff and not
just a few members selected to be specialists.
We Provide:
- One- or two-day courses of training in recognizing the several major
types of mental illness, understanding the thought disorders and behaviors
most common to each, and applying the responses that will most safely
manage these subjects and bring them to treatment.
- One- or two-day courses in managing victims of potentially traumatizing
crisis-Natural Disasters, traffic and other accidents, terrorism,
hostage taking, domestic violence, child victimization, rape, assault,
drug toxicity, death notification and others-to reduce or interdict
psychological trauma and improve victim testimony.
- On-site consultation visits to requesting organizations at the scene
of major crisis events in any of the above categories for the purpose
of psychological wellbeing of victims
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