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What’s Critical Incident Stress Debriefing (CISD) and what should I expect when requesting it?
Critical incidents are situations outside your normal frame of reference, which can challenge your belief system. They can come in many forms, such as natural disasters or events involving people. These situations can leave you and your colleagues feeling out of control.
If your workplace has experienced an incident, Arcora’s CISD can offer you and your staff the support you need during this difficult time. Led either in person or virtually by a counsellor in our network, CISD is a short-term group intervention process that focuses on an immediate event. The general goals of a group debriefing are to:
- Help individuals understand and process the incident
- Explore how the incident may have challenged their beliefs/assumptions
- Support individuals in the healing process, including building resilience and managing reactions to stress
- Identify individuals who need additional support
- Educate on common reactions to critical incidents and identify healthy coping patterns
- Help participants reorganize and repair after the crisis, while minimizing the known challenges of crisis response, such as re-traumatisation or vicarious traumatisation
Our CISD sessions are confidential and designed to best meet the unique needs of your team. If your organization has experienced an incident, please reach out to our intake team at 1-877-412-7483 so we can pair you with a counsellor to lead your session and, if necessary, provide you and your team with additional individual supports.