CERTIFICATE PROGRAM IN FIRST RESPONDERS PSYCHOLOGY

Course description:


OPERATIONS &


CONSULTATION




Learn to give strategic, analytic, expert guidance and professional assistance to personnel, groups, and organizations to aid them in their work. Explore ways to consult and assist supervisors, managers, groups, and organizations for the purpose of improving group and organizational functioning. Specific consultation examples include identifying implicit bias, working with the mentally ill, and managing crises.

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OBJECTIVES


UNDERSTAND the application of science and procedures in support of first responder activities including criminal investigations such as criminal profiling, crisis negotiations, threat assessment, and psychological autopsies.

DEVELOP problem-solving strategies that include obtaining data and conducting research to generate empirical findings.

INTERACT with first responders and first responder clinicians to develop skills normally only possible in the field.

GAIN skills to educate police personnel about psychotic disorders, personality disorders, psychopathology, and memory.

STRENGTHEN tools for mediation, community engagement, and negotiation.

UPCOMING CLASSES

COURSE DATES:
Thursdays 5:00 PM – 8:00 PM,
September 7 - December 7, 2023

COST:

$ 750

INSTRUCTOR:
Dr. Mark Kamena, PhD, ABPP, MBA, M.Crim.

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Through our successful distance learning format, with trimester-long individual classes, you will achieve full certification in as little as a year.

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INSTRUCTORS


Teaching faculty are licensed psychologists who actively work with firefighters, EMTs, police officers, correctional officers, dispatchers, and their families. Guest speakers are recognized experts within the field.
MARK KAMENA, PhD, ABPP, MBA, M.Crim., is a licensed psychologist and board certified specialist in police and public service psychology. He has been an instructor at the Wright Institute in Berkeley, CA since 2017, when he helped start the first responder psychology classes. Dr. Kamena is a co-founder, volunteer lead clinician and the director of research for the first responder support network, a residential treatment programs for first responders (WCPR) and their significant others (SOS). He is a co-author (Kischman, Kamena & Fay) of Counseling Cops: What Clinicians Need to Know (2013, Guilford Press). He is also co- author of “Intensive residential treatment program: Efficacy for first responders’ critical incident stress,” J Police Crim Psych (2020), 35(1). Dr. Kamena is a past-President of the California Psychological Association and served as chair of the ethics committee for the psychology section of the International Association of Chiefs of Police.

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To enroll, or to request more information, please contact:
Cassandra Dilosa, Academic Program Manager
Ph: 510.841.9230 ext. 115
Email: cdilosa@wi.edu
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