SCI Chaplains and Critical Incident Stress Management Training
Recently, on June 28-30, SCI chaplains Tom Rhoades and David Shirk welcomed a group of SCI chaplain associates for Critical Incident Stress Management (CISM) training in Texas City, TX. CISM is emotional first aid that reduces stressors which can adversely affect the brain following unexpected traumatic experiences. For mariners and seafarers, this could include workplace injury, fire, explosions, collisions, piracy, witnessing accidental death or suicide, or being left on an abandoned vessel, among other things. Working on the water certainly has its dangerous and difficult moments, and SCI chaplains are called to respond to mariners in crisis, whatever form that crisis may take. For this reason, SCI requires individual and group CISM training for all chaplains and chaplain associates.
SCI chaplains will be on panels at the Gulf Intracoastal Canal Association seminar (GICA) on August 3–5 in New Orleans, and the American Waterways Operators (AWO) Summer Safety Meeting in Chicago on August 17–18. The goal for chaplains participating on these panels is to encourage maritime companies to 1) clearly define incidents with trauma potential for their mariners, and 2) add SCI CISM to their Towing Safety Management Plans, so our chaplains can be immediately called when needed.
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