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ISPA 29th International School Psychology
Colloquium EUROPEAN COMMITTEE CRISIS
INTERVENTION TRAINING Bernhard Meissner,
Bavaria, Germany Drs. Olanda Momcilovic,
Holland Jean-Luc Pilet, France Helen Bakker,
Initial liaison ISPA-NEPES
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Agenda

• Overview of development of EuroCom and Crisis
  Management
• Developments in different countries
• Plans/next steps for next courses
• ISPA European Training Center
• EuroCom Co-Chairs
• ICRN New chairs
• Cooperation with NEPES

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Importance of European Collaboration

• Europe is in the process of integration
• The educational system (ES) is vital for the
  views on the world of the next generation
• School psychology has an important role to play
  in the ES
• It is necessary to know what is going on in
  different countries Affiliates know.
• Those working in the domain should be involved.

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EuroCom

• 2001 Dinan, 2002 Nyborg, 2004 Exeter
• Attempts to to get European colleagues together
  to more focussed topic failed
• 2005 Athens Chair Bernhard Meissner
• The present audience at the meeting approves of
  taking the topic of crisis intervention and
  prevention as means for developing further closer
  professional cooperation among European school
  psychologists.

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Crisis Management Development
1996 Eger, Keynote of Bernie Stein on Crisis
Intervention 1999 Konstanz/Kreuzlingen,
Foundation of the International Crisis Response
Network (ICRN) in ISPA 2002 Bavarian School
Psychologists trained NOVA Crisis Management by
Bill Pfohl used it in Erfurt 2003 05 COMENIUS
trainings for European School Psychologists
Trento, Nyborg, Innsbruck, Frantiskovy Lazne,
Athens 2006 Advanced Tr. Long Beach, Ca., 2007
Tampere 166 trained
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• Crisis management
• leads to prevention.
• It promotes school development
• In crises students, teachers and schools need
  support
• Public attention recogniction of school psych
  work
• Prevention is the conclusion after disasters
• This topic could be the best means at the moment
  to promote cooperation among European school
  psychologists.

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Development in Bavaria

• Crisis response and coping team after Erfurt
• About 40 got basic training
• Annual meetings of 2 days
• Contract of MoE with school insurance
• MoE wants to reduce central group rather than
  extend

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NIP Crisis Intervention Network of School
PsychologistThe Netherlands

• Mrs.drs. Olanda Momcilovic

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2003-2007

• September 2003 the first group Trento
• Back home - orientation
• - 4 regional teams23
  members
• - working as
  volunteers
• - interventions
• - define own role

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Other activities

• Modest cases
• Lectures about the subject
• university students
• teachers
• Writing articles for the papers
• Interviews on radio and TV
• National symposium
• Sri Lanka

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Challenges

• How to define our role before starting support
• How to cooperate with mental health organisations
  (often good organised, but more bureaucratic)
• How to be immediately available in cases of
  crisis, as a volunteer

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Plans for the future

• PR
• Build a good network
• Strengthening our professionalism
• More members

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ISPA colloquium TAMPERE 2007

• Crisis management
• in French Catholic schools
• a collaboration
  project

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A national model for crisis management

• built in collaboration with
• - French medical health teams
• - ISPA colleagues
• strengthened by training
• with European school psychologists

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Training for French psychologists

• 2000
• initiation for all psychologists (in our
  association)
• 2002 to 2005
• specific training for volunteers
• ISPA training (Nova model)
  
  
• 2007
• Teams of trained psychologists (40 of
  colleagues)
• at local level, in nearly every region,

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Solidarity at regional level

• five regional coordinators
• To support colleagues, by phone,
• To give advice
• To talk about
• preparation
• follow-up to the intervention

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Solidarity at national level

• one national coordinator
• To organise solidarity and assistance
• To prepare courses
• To form a special team
• if a
  serious crisis occurs

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Writing a book

•  Tragic situations in schools, practice and
  intervention,
• A resource for psychologists and
  headteachers
• In fact
• - a guide for best practices
• an assessment of lessons learned
• But also
• - a good debriefing for coordinators
• - an outcome
• of the international and
  European cooperation

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Writing booklets

• Jointly with associations of
• Headteachers
• Parents
• About best procedures
• organising schools during a crisis

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Current projects

• training for each senior head teacher
• First time such project has been undertaken
• Additional training planned
• Setting up of pluridisciplinary
• crisis management teams
• including senior head teacher, psychologists,
  priests.

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conclusion

• Managing a crisis is difficult
• But
• Valorises the image of psychologists
• can also bring psychologists
• closer together
• - at local level
• - at national
  level
• - and also,
  at international level

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Managing crisis a great human and
professionalexperience