CCISM Certification is valid for five years from the date of successfully passing the CCISM Examination. Your CCISM Certification can be extended for an additional five years from the successful completion of the Recertification Exam, which is now available. To be eligible to sit for the Recertification Exam, you must have successfully completed the CCISM Examination.

The CCISM Recertification Exam consists of 50 True/False items based on reading, analyzing and inferential extension from eight open access journal articles published in the online journal, Crisis, Stress & Human Resilience.

The cost of the Recertification Exam is $99.00 and the exam can be accessed in the UMBC Emergency Heath Services testing portal using the following link.

CCISM Recertification Exam

Simply sign in using the same credentials that you used to take the CCISM Exam to pay for and access the Recertification Exam.

*** If you do not remember your password or your username, click on the “FORGOT?” button on the sign in page and enter your username or your e-mail address.

Resources to Prepare for the Recertification Exam

Tamrakar, T, Murphy, J, & Elklit, A. (2019). Was Psychological Debriefing Dismissed Too Quickly? Crisis, Stress, and Human Resilience, Vol. 1, Issue 3, 2019 December 16, 2019

Everly, GS, Jr. (2020). Psychological First Aid (PFA) To Expand Mental Health Support and Foster Resiliency in Underserved and Access-Compromised Areas. Crisis, Stress, and Human Resilience, Vol. 1, Issue 4, 2020 March 18, 2020

Herrema, J, Weichart, P, et al. (2020). The Impact of Organizational Support on Secondary Traumatic Stress and Evaluation of a CISM Peer Support Program, Crisis, Stress, and Human Resilience, Vol. 2, Issue 1, 2020 June 08, 2020

Yap, HL, Ho, HF, Ang, J et al. (2020). Supporting the police psychologically in a pandemic: the Singapore experience, Crisis, Stress, and Human Resilience, Vol. 2, Issue 1, 2020 June 15, 2020

Everly, GS, Jr, Everly, AN, & Smith, KJ (2020). Resilient Leadership: A Partial Replication and Construct Validation, Crisis, Stress, and Human Resilience, Vol. 2, Issue 1, 2020 June 15, 2020

Swab, J (2020). Critical Incident Stress Management: Perspectives on It’s History, Frequency of Use, Efficacy, and Success, Crisis, Stress, and Human Resilience, Vol. 1, Issue 4, 2020 March 18, 2020

Burnett, HJ,  Pichot, RE, & Bailey, KDG.  (2019). An Exploratory Study on Psychological Body Armor, Crisis, Stress, and Human Resilience, Vol. 1, Issue 2, 2019 September 10, 2019

Everly, A. (2019). Fairytales: A Novel Way of Educating Children About Psychological Health. Crisis, Stress, and Human Resilience, Vol. 1, Issue 3, 2019 December 19, 2019