COURSE 6A - MENTAL HEALTH RESPONSE TO MASS VIOLENCE AND TERRORISM - A TRAINING MANUAL

Course overview

This course is sponsored online by CEU By Net and earns 7.0 Clock Hours of credit for multiple State Boards including Florida, Texas, California, and Alabama, TCBAP-TAAP, IC&RC, NAADAC, and Florida Certification Board, and 6.5 PDHs for EACC. Also earns 4.75 NBCC Hours effective May 1, 2015 (taken prior to this date, it earns 6.5 NBCC Hours). This course has two online downloadable text document study guides in a PDF format, and two online quizzes. PUBLISHERS AND AUTHOR OF THE COURSE MATERIALS: The training documents are COPYRIGHTED AND PUBLISHED in the public domain by the US Department of Health and Human Services' Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) - Center for Mental Health Services in Rockville, MD, in collaboration with the U.S. Department of Justice¿s (DOJ) Office for Victims of Crime (OVC). The primary AUTHOR of the training manual is the nationally recognized expert on response to mass criminal violence, clinical psychologist Deborah J. DeWolfe, Ph.D., M.S.P.H.. It is DHHS Pub. No. SMA 3959. The manual in its entirety is 180 pages in length; we address only the first 3 chapters in this course. The course is appropriate for Social Workers, LMFTs, and LMHCs, AOD-SA-CD Counselors, Pastoral Counselors, Rehabilitation Specialists, CEAP Providers, emergency response teams, community planners, administrators, and clinical supervisors. The training manual from which these course materials come is recommended by SAMHSA for teaching the 'need to know' details of effectively responding to a mass casualty event such as a terrorist attack or mass criminal violence tragedy (e.g., school and mall shootings, bombings, hijackings), and plane crashes with mass casualties. This course emphasizes the COMMUNITY and PREVENTATIVE aspects of addressing the impact of mass casualty tragedies. The interventions that are described are specific to diverse age groups, religious groups, and ethnicities. The course teaches that there are CULTURAL, ETHNIC, AND RELIGIOUS considerations to keep in mind when assisting communities, family members, survivors and victims in the immediate aftermath of tragedy. The bottom line, based upon research and extensive experiential data from SAMHSA, is this: ¿What helps vs. what hurts and worsens the trauma?¿ and ¿What preventative interventions can discourage development of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, depressive disorders, and associated AOD use¿. As indicated, this course material is an extract [i.e., the FIRST THREE CHAPTERS] of a much larger TRAINING DOCUMENT first published in the public domain by SAMHSA in 2004. The training documents promoted on the SAMHSA website are reviewed annually for quality and relevance. The current relevance of this course material is reflected by the fact that the entire Training Manual is currently utilized and cited as a primary federal and state training document, utilized to prepare federal and state offices for responding to mass violence tragedies and terrorism events. Learn more about the course, and the specific goals, on our website.