A Firefighter’s Life Workshop
A CSFF Certified Clinician Workshop

Date: January 23, 2012
 Time: 8:30AM – 12:30PM CST
Check-in time begins at 8:00am - workshop starts promptly at 8:30am

Location:

J.C. RESTORATION, INC.

3200 Squibb Avenue

Rolling Meadows, IL 60008

Workshop Fee: $50.00 per participant

Registration: Open to counseling students and
Behavioral Health Professionals, LCPC, LPC, LCSW, LSW,
Marriage Counselors, Emergency Medical Services

Firefighters are faced with emotional needs that are very unique to their occupation and there is a

large percentage of firefighters that are struggling with career related stress. This can manifest

itself through higher divorce rates, addictions, financial difficulties, anxiety disorders, PTSD and

also depression. These factors have lead to an alarmingly high increase of firefighter suicides in

recent years. When these symptoms occur, a firefighter needs a support system in place that is

readily accessible from someone who is qualified and truly understands his or her circumstances.

This workshop involves a careful examination of a day in the life of a firefighter. Emphases are

on the education of basic understanding of a typical day at a firehouse, terminology, emotional

and physical stressors, role-play, tactical execution and discussion. There will be an exploration

of the differences between career firefighters, volunteer firefighters and paid-on-call firefighters.

The intent of this workshop is to develop quality relationships between the clinician world and the

fire service. Secondly, attendees will gain an enhanced comprehension of the fire service, to

better assist firefighters and their families when working with them in a professional setting.

This is an interactive workshop in which topics are presented by the instructor. Attendees will be

expected to participate through discussion, role-play, as well as randomly selected attendees

participating in tactical exercise. When completed, attendees will have a better insight of how a

firefighter feels when dealing with them in their professional career. The tactical exercise will

consist of attendees dressing in the complete gear that a firefighter would wear, and perform a

mock search and rescue with a blacked-out mask.

• To introduce attendees to the life of a firefighter.

• To introduce attendees to the various emotional stressors that affect firefighters.

• To show the attendees, through tactical exercise, the physical stressors that the job of a

firefighter demands.  

• To orient attendees to the basic terminology within the fire service.

• To provide attendees with opportunities to develop insight when dealing with firefighters

and their families on emotional and behavioral issues.

• Emotional Stressors

• Physical Stressors

• On-scene photographs (Note: some may contain graphic images)

• Terminology

• Statistics

• Tactical exercises

• Role-Play

• Group discussion

The Illinois Mental Health Counselors Association (IMHCA) is licensed by the Illinois Department

of Professional Regulation as a provider of CE’s for LCPC, LPC, LCSW, LSW. This workshop cosponsored

by IMHCA, is credited for 4.0 CE hours. CEUs are credited to the length of the

workshop in its entirety (4 hours). CE Certificate fee per participant is $10.00.

This workshop is a CSFF Certified Clinician Workshop. All LCPC, LPC, LCSW, LSW participants

that complete this workshop will be eligible to be listed in our CSFF Certified Clinician Finder

section of our www.csff.info website for an annual fee of $9.95. Our website receives many hits

daily from fire service personnel specifically searching for clinicians, that have an enhanced