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Lynne Bibeau, M.Sc, Ph.D.
Psychologist
Director of Employee Assistance Program and Crisis Intervention Team.
email: lbibeau@physimed.com
phone: 514-747-8081
toll free: 1-888-749-7463
EAP: 1-800-667-2683
This presentation is an overview of a training session addressing all kinds of problematics involving violence issues for psychologists and other professidnals joining an EAP and Crisis intervention team in Quebec, Canada.
These professionals are going to be involved in different crisis interventions: suicidal crisis, post-traumatic crisis, organizational crisis. They also are psychotherapists with a cognitive-behavioral basic approach and most of them are eclectic. The training session in meant to teach them or to review with them some useful information regarding certain problematic: workplace violence, suicidal ideation and behaviors, women victims of verbal and physical abuse and to discuss some of these cases as well as other particular cases of crisis intervention.
In the 90 minutes presentation, the objective is to give participants some brief and practical information, and they can further look at these therapeutic tools in more details in reference books that are suggested for each topic. Throughout the presentation, questions, discussions and the sharing of information will be helpful for every participant. For example, every week the team of professionals is meeting for clinical rounds and one colleague is presenting a case, an interesting book or a specific problematic. Let's have an "international" clinical round and for this time I am the presenter!
1. Although no one can predict with certainty a violent act, a guideline in assessing the potential of violence of an employee is certainly helpful.
2. The suicidal rate in Quebec is one of the highest. One recent study in University of Quebec in Montreal shows some interesting result regarding the self-escape type of suicide, the crisis intervention that can prevent a "cognitive deconstruction", the association with perfectionism and the most recent statistics. Quebec has less homicides but a lot more suicides then in USA. The profile of suicidal individual is the same. What are the possible similarities and difference? Firearms access?
3. In Quebec, a specific governmental organization "Indemnization of Victims of Criminal Acts" refers women to psychologists. Most of these women, victims of verbal and physical abuse, know that they are trapped in a "pattern" but cannot move to a better life for themselves and their children. One approach that seem to be helpful in many cases is the schema-focus therapy (J. Young).
4. We, as crisis intervention professionals, are likely to be exposed to some aggressive behaviors. How to deal with it? This information is also part of a training sessions for other professionals like school directors...
S. In any crisis intervention, the use of "creativity" is important. Some particular cases show how CISD is not always like in textbooks.
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