J-0400 Critical Incident Stress Management (CISM) Team.pdf

Kern County Sheriff’s Office Policies and Procedures CRITICAL INCIDENT STRESS MANAGEMENT TITLE: NO: J-400 (CISM) TEAM APPROVED: Donny Youngblood, Sheriff-Coroner EFFECTIVE: REVIEWED: REVISED: UPDATED: August 1, 1990 06/01/2018 04/20/2005 06/01/2018 POLICY The purpose of this program is to provide all employees, volunteers and their families with the opportunity for peer support through times of personal or professional crisis or stress, and to provide a resource in handling crisis situations in the field that require intervention. The Critical Incident Stress Management (CISM) Team processes may be defined as individual or group meetings (defusing), or discussions about a traumatic event, or series of traumatic events (debriefing). The defusing and debriefing processes are designed to mitigate the psychological impact of a traumatic event on first responders, prevent the subsequent development of a post-traumatic syndrome, and serve as an early identification mechanism for individuals