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3. Training for Emergency Management

According to the SAMHSA Native Connections article (n.d., Training section, pp. 2-3), important areas for training include: adult basic mental health first aid, which enables counselors to recognize the situation and react appropriately in a mental health crisis; suicide prevention training, like ASIST or QPR, which prepares the counselor to identify situations of suicide and how an intervention could be done; crisis intervention training focuses on the management of severe emergencies in mental health and collaboration with other services; critical incident debriefing training focuses on helping individuals cope in the aftermath of a traumatic event; HIPPA confidentiality training, which focuses on training counselors in confidentiality and ethics to assure confidentiality to patients and act in accordance with ethical principles in behavior; and lastly, grief recovery/counseling training (SAMHSA Native Connections, n.d., Training section, pp.2-3). According to the SAMHSA Train your CCP staff article (n.d., Required Trainings section), there are two programs, an immediate or regular services program, that each contain five trainings: Core Content Training, Transition to RSP Training, RSP Midprogram Training, Disaster Anniversary Training, and RSP Phasedown Training.