Full Course Description
High Risk Clients: Effectively Handle Five of the Most Critical Scenarios You’ll Face as a Clinician
Program Information
Objectives
- Complete a comprehensive mental health assessment that encompasses a multitude of clinical concerns including mental status, lethality, substance abuse and trauma.
- Determine signs of and risk factors for suicidal ideation in clients and effectively respond in order to ensure the safety of the client.
- Assess indicators of substance intoxication, withdrawal and overdose in clients and create protocol for responding appropriately.
- Assess for risk of violence in a clinical setting and develop skills to effectively and safely intervene during an acute crisis.
- Examine ways in which client responses to trauma are often misdiagnosed as mental health disorders and consider the clinical implications of this.
- Create accurate and comprehensive documentation of clinical crises to protect all.
Copyright :
18/04/2018
Suicide Assessment and Intervention: Assess Suicidal Ideation and Effectively Intervene in Crisis Situations with Confidence, Composure and Sensitivity
Program Information
Objectives
- Assess individuals at risk of suicide with a clinical approach that identifies both explicit and implicit expressions of suicidal thought.
- Ascertain key indicators of imminent suicide and develop a strategy for determining when and how to hospitalize clients.
- Formulate a CBT and DBT oriented case conceptualization that addresses how to effectively work with specific populations including veterans and the elderly.
- Employ a collaborative safety approach to help clients survive a suicidal crisis while avoiding the pitfalls of suicide contracting and the false sense of security and decreased clinical vigilance that can accompany their use.
- Develop communication strategies that convey your compassion and support and strengthen the therapeutic alliance.
- Design a multi-systemic approach that reduces access to lethal means and incorporates the suicidal person’s social connections into their safety plan.
Copyright :
08/06/2018