Crisis Management and Critical Incident Stress

Course: ERC5192


This course is part of the following part-time on campus and/or online program(s):

An effective foundation for concepts and skills employed in crisis or disaster situations is explored. Students learn about group behaviour, psychological response to crisis, crisis communication, as well as gain a solid grounding in understanding and managing critical incident stress reactions in people exposed to traumatic events, with particular emphasis given to the nature of trauma and the mitigation of its impacts. Students explore different types of critical incidents and their associated features, acute, delayed, and cumulative stress reactions of normal persons exposed to abnormal events, the rescue personality and basic debriefing methodology.

Notes

This course is part of a graduate certificate program which requires an application process. Web registration is not available. If you have been accepted into the program, please register through the Academic Planner in your ACSIS account. If you would like to apply to this program of study, please complete our free online application form.

Prerequisites

ERC5180

SUMMER 2024
Online Learning
SectionDate(s)ModeDomestic FeesRegistration
800 May 14 - Aug 20Online$369.20* See footnote

Please Note: Off-shore international students enrolling in online courses will be subject to an international premium fee per course registration.


* Online registration not available for this section.

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