Proposed Activities
Immediate Intervention Coordination

For the promotion of GIPSE and specifically for the Immediate Intervention area:

» To  give conferences about the program and specifically about Crisis Intervention, to general public  and to GIPSE’s members interested in this area of attention.

» To offer formative workshops about the handling of strategies and protocols of crisis intervention, especially to those who are interested en being part of the immediate intervention team.

» To colaborate with the other levels of attention in promotion, training and consolidation of GIPSE activities.

For the adquisition of theoretical tools:

» Revision of information about important concepts and topics, such as: critical event, psychological crisis and trauma, loss-mourning; traumatic and postraumatic stress; empathy, affective and effective communication, etc.

» Revision of information about crisis intervention strategies and procedures.

» Revision and learning of psychological first aid.

» Learning of basic strategies and tools of affective relation and communication that facilitate the acceptance of crisis intervention.

For the development of crisis intervention skills:

» Workshops for the adquisition of skills  for the establishment of the initial affective relation and communication that favors the intervention in crisis procedures.

» Selected clinical hipnosis topics and exercises applied to intervention in crisis.

» Techniques for the reduction and handling of stress: breathing and relaxation.

» Elaboration of a directory of the people who are  interested in participating in this area.

» Recuperation of the experiences obtained after de April 2010 earthquake.

Periodic sessions workshop style for:

» Training (according to the consensus and availability of the team).

» The elaboration of an immediate intervention protocol.

» Feedback and evaluation of the activities; as well as of the development of the working group/team.

Immediate Intervention Coordination
Coordinated by: Psy. Leticia Páez Frias