First Responder
Specialty Services and Training

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Medical Health Professionals

Course Details

LESSONS LEARNED:
Core Competencies for Mental Health Providers Working with Law Enforcement, Firefighters, and Emergency Responders

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Course Overview

This presentation will review the core competencies for therapists working with this population. Topics include: clinical training competencies, administration and institutional betrayals trauma, legal and ethical issues, working with brain fitness and sleep fitness, and case conceptualization using a Parade of Faces.

  • Course is held as live, in-person events
Course Description

Working with Law Enforcement, Firefighters, and Emergency Responders of all types of assignments are regularly exposed to traumatic events over the course of their careers. This exposure can lead to post-traumatic symptoms from brain injuries. Unfortunately, this chronic line of duty exposure often goes unidentified so that without treatment resulting in long-term and sometimes fatal consequences. This presentation will review the core competencies for therapists working with this population from a psychologist with 40 years of experience. Core competencies include understanding the similarities and differences within the wide array of assignments that professionals encounter.

Topics covered for mental health providers specializing in working with the population include clinical training competencies, administration and institutional betrayals trauma, legal and ethical issues, working with
brain fitness and sleep fitness, and case conceptualization using a Parade of Faces.

This workshop will end with practice exercises regarding ethical and legal issues along with case examples.

  • Day 1: Lecture, and Lunch with Emergency Responders
  • Day 2: Legal and Ethical Issues unique to working with Emergency Responders
Who are Emergency Personnel/Public Safety Officials?

This course is specially designed to help you learn to better serve a specific population - but who exactly is in that population?

  • Law enforcement officers
  • Fire sciences officers
  • Emergency services
  • 911 operators
  • Emergency room staff, doctors and nurses
  • Child welfare workers
  • Psychotherapists
  • Military Veterans
Prerequisites

Completion of an EMDRIA approved EMDR Basic Training Course is required to take this course.

Proof of completion will be required during registration.

Continuing Education

Completion of this course will award participants with 14.0 hours of CE credits.

Full course attendance required - no partial credit is given.