Posted: April 29, 2025
When: Saturday, June 14, 2025
Time: Begins at 8am This is a hybrid course with 6 hours of pre-course digital work to be completed leading up to the on-site event. All digital work is distributed and tracked by NATA. The on-site training consists of ~ 8 hours of teaching / practice.
Location: University of Minnesota
Cost: $200 The MATA is proud to offer this course at a discounted rate!
Course Credit: Hours can be submitted as BOC Catagory D.
Deadline: Registration must be completed by May 26th to allow for planning.
Got Questions? Don't hesitate to reach out to your Minnesota ATs Care team via atscare@mnata.com. Visit the NATA ATs Care page for more information.
Course Description
Crisis Intervention is NOT psychotherapy; rather, it is a specialized acute emergency mental health intervention which requires specialized training. As physical first aid is to surgery, crisis intervention is to psychotherapy. Thus, crisis intervention is sometimes called “emotional first aid”. This program is designed to teach participants the fundamentals of, and a specific protocol for, individual crisis intervention. This course is designed for anyone who desires to increase their knowledge of individual (one-on-one) crisis intervention techniques in the fields of Business & Industry, Crisis Intervention, Disaster Response, Education, Emergency Services, Employee Assistance, Healthcare, Homeland Security, Mental Health, Military, Spiritual Care, and Traumatic Stress.
Highlights
- Psychological crisis and psychological crisis intervention
- Resistance, resiliency, recovery continuum
- Critical incident stress management
- Evidence-based practice
- Basic crisis communication techniques
- Common psychological and behavioral crisis reactions
- Putative and empirically-derived mechanisms
- SAFER-Revised model
- Suicide intervention
- Risks of iatrogenic “harm”
