Caplan, community, and Critical Incident Stress Management.
Critical Incident Stress Management (CISM), a comprehensive crisis intervention program, is examined from the perspective of Community Psychology. Because CISM adheres to the 5 Principles of Community Psychology and was designed to be adopted and implemented as a systematic intervention embedded within an organization, it is argued that CISM is best understood and evaluated in context as a prevention program rather than simply a crisis intervention "treatment." Recommendations are made for evaluating CISM as a comprehensive intervention-using an Action Research framework encompassing methodological pluralism and multiple stakeholders' definitions of success.
Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA. smitchel@jhsph.edu
Shannon Gwin
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Mitchell
Jeffrey T
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Mitchell
D003156:Community Mental Health Services; D003419:Crisis Intervention; D006801:Humans; D015397:Program Evaluation; D012944:Social Support; D013313:Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic / Q000517:prevention & control*