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Risk Assessment and Risk Management Course

The DICES® System for risk assessment and management:
a person-centred risk formulation approach for mental health professionals.

This exciting risk assessment and management approach is designed for use by whole services and organisations, and is used by over 6,000 mental health professionals in Canada. This empowering course (available in 3-day and 2-day formats) will give you best-practice tools to help you recognise, assess and manage risks including: suicide, self-neglect, violence and sexual assault.

It gives you APT’s level one Accreditation in DICES, with the option of sitting in exam to obtain level two (free of charge) and from there through more study right up to APT's DICES Masterclass and level four Accreditation.

Founded in 1981, APT has grown to become a trusted source of gold-standard training, from introductory through to masterclass level. Over 150,000 mental health professionals have attended APT’s post-qualification courses, commissioned by numerous health authorities and healthcare providers.

The DICES System uniquely combines built-in APT Accreditation with automatic access to our renowned post-course resources to help you support your clients. It is available for both teams and individuals, face-to-face or online, and can also count towards The APT Diploma in Psychological Therapies and The APT Diploma for working in Secure Psychiatric and Forensic Settings.

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Executive Summary:

The DICES® system makes risk assessment clear, structured and person-centred. Over 6,000 professionals now use the DICES® Checklists to support their practice because they are practical prompts, not questionnaires – they help clinicians bring together key factors, apply their expertise, and create a person-centred risk formulation in line with internationally recognised clinical guidance (e.g. NICE in the UK).

At its heart is the DICES® ‘risk triad’:

The training covers the first two of those and introduces the third, and is available as a 2-day course for most practitioners, and a 3-day course for senior personnel or DICES® champions who need greater depth.

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Who should attend?

Everyone who works with people in settings such as: Adult Mental Health, Children and Adolescents, Older People, Substance Misuse, Forensic, Learning Disability, and Brain Injury.

The professional affiliations of people attending this course include: mental-health nurses, social workers, occupational therapists, clinical psychologists, educational psychologists, psychiatrists, probation officers and others.

The course covers:

Module One: Core knowledge about risk assessment and management.

Module Two: Risk assessment and the DICES checklists.

Module 3: Risk Management.

Module 4: Demonstrating the risk has been assessed and managed competently.

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What this course will do for you:

What you receive as a result of attending the training:

You will gain APT's Level 1 accreditation, and receive a certificate to this effect. It is this accreditation that gives you access to the important online resources (notably the checklists) associated with the course.

You will be eligible to sit an online exam to uprate your accreditation to Level 2 if you wish, at no extra cost.

Your registration lasts indefinitely, whilst your accreditation lasts for 3 years from the date of completion and is renewable.

Your accreditation is given value by the fact of over 150,000 people having attended APT training. See APT accreditation for full details.


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Option 1: Online Anytime course:

A highly engaging pre-recorded course you can start any time you like – right now if you want (equivalent to 18 hours CPD). Price: $440 + GST/HST per person. The fee covers: 3 years access to the course, certification, registration, and Level 2 APT Accreditation by completing the course and inbuilt exam.

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If you don’t complete the course for some reason, then you can simply ask for your money back!

If you are a manager ordering multiple courses, and some of your team don’t complete them, you can ask us to transfer those courses to others in your team!

(Valid for up to 3 years from the date the training was assigned.)

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Option 2: Exclusive course for your organization:

We can deliver the course ‘online live’ (via Zoom or Teams) exclusively to you and your organization, for a group of up to 15 people. Price: $7,990 + GST/HST for the 3-day version, or $5,764 + GST/HST for the 2-day version (extra delegates: $175 + GST/HST per person, per day). Or, if you or a colleague are a senior mental health professional, you can apply to become an APT Tutor and, if your application is accepted, deliver the training in-house at half the standard cost (either face-to-face or live online).

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APT Accreditation

As a bona fide APT event, this course automatically has accreditation from The Association for Psychological Therapies. This means (i) that it contains the right amount of relevant information for its duration, and (ii) the information is presented in an engaging way, and in a way that will make it likely to be used after the course. APT verifies the accreditation by publishing the delegates' average ratings of relevance and presentation-quality for all its accredited courses. The accreditation is given value by over 150,000 professionals having attended APT courses.

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The DICES® System for Risk Assessment & Management  ❯


What does DICES® stand for?  ❯


About The DICES® System ❯


The DICES® System Training  ❯


DICES® Checklists  ❯


Feedback for The DICES® System  ❯


Evidence for The DICES® System  ❯


DICES® Accreditation  ❯

Feedback Ratings

Live Feedback Ratings.

Every delegate rates our courses for presentation and relevance and the averages below update automatically as each new course runs.

These live results also power APT’s acclaimed Accreditation System — so widely valued because it is evidence-based, drawing directly on the real-time ratings of professionals who have completed the training.

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* Feedback taken from the last 10 runnings of this course (each course has around 15 people attending).

** Feedback taken from the last 20 people completing the course. Delegates give a single overall rating to anytime courses.

If the course has run less than the stated number of times, the percentage score will be based on the number of times the course has been completed.

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Reviews.

APT prides itself on the feedback we receive about our courses. Below are just some of the great comments the The DICES® System for Risk Assessment and Management has received.

“The best risk assessment course I have ever attended. The tools were precise and relevant to my practice. The management aspect was well explained and the practical examples were very good and informative."

“I have undergone many risk management trainings and this was by far the most informative, interesting and well presented. I will definitely recommend to other organizations I work for."

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