The DICES® Risk Assessment and Management tool for mental health and related areas.
Used by over 6,000 mental health professionals, the DICES® System is an exciting Risk Assessment and Management tool designed for use by whole services and organisations.
The DICES® System gives you the tools to assess and manage the risks of: suicide and non-suicidal self-injury, self-neglect and vulnerability, violence to others, and sexual assault. And other risks that are particularly relevant to: older people, children and adolescents, and people who misuse mood altering substances.
The following courses are available:
The Association for Psychological Therapies (APT) provides the following DICES® courses.
The DICES® System for Risk Assessment & Management.
Available in 3-day and 2-day versions.
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’:
- Identify and formulate risk.
- Manage the risk.
- Deliver effective treatment with confidence.
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.
The DICES® Masterclass.
A 3-day course.
This is a course for people who have at least 6 months practice subsequent to receiving Level 3 APT-Accreditation (often much more).
In lectures, the masterclass provides more depth on some of the topics in the DICES® course but is mainly focused on developing skill, based around the following components: listening to and making case presentations, watching video demos by others, role-play/real-play where you interview others and they interview you, and establishing a stable system for support and development for yourself in this area post course. The result is that you enhance your skill and technique, not just your knowledge. Successful completion also gains you APT's Level 4 accreditation in the subject.
The DICES® Refresher Course.
A 1-day course.
Sharpen your skills. Refresh your confidence.
This one-day refresher is for professionals who’ve completed the full DICES® Risk Assessment and Management course and want to revisit key principles, update their practice, and boost their confidence in applying the system. Includes realistic case examples, updated materials where applicable, and CPD certification.
Available as a 1-day live course (for whole teams) or as an 'online anytime' (self-paced) course, it maintains or extends your APT Accreditation in DICES®.
About DICES®
The DICES® system comes from APT, the Association for Psychological Therapies and is used by over 6,000 professionals working in the NHS and independent facilities. It is a leading tool for mental health risk assessment and easily enables you to manage the risks of suicide and non-suicidal self-injury, self-neglect and vulnerability, violence to others, and sexual assault. And other risks that are particularly relevant to: older people, children and adolescents, and people who misuse mood altering substances.
DICES® Checklists
The DICES® System gives you access to excellent resources for use with your clients, including Risk Assessment checklists (covering adult mental health, suicide, self neglect and vulnerability, substance misuse, violence, sexual assault, children and adolescents and older people). And Risk Management checklists covering suicide, violence, self neglect and vulnerability, and older people. These resources are available to download (or access digitally) for the duration of your accreditation (3 years renewable).
DICES® Feedback
DICES® training continually receives excellent written feedback, such as "I would have no hesitation in recommending the extension of this training to all other professionals within the Trust. This has provided us with a valid, global assessment tool which is straightforward, clear and concise".
DICES® Evidence
The evidence for the items on the checklists comes mainly from the relevant literature and NICE guidance. The wisdom of having such checklists is partly self-evident, although there is now research-based evidence about the efficacy of using checklists.
Accreditation
Successful completion of DICES® gives you Level 1 accreditation from the Association for Psychological Therapies, and access to the DICES® checklists for 3 years (renewable). There are also options to uprate your levels of accreditation by completing an online exam and submitting a work-based project.
