Responding to Major Incidents Training
The Association for Psychological Therapies is a leading provider of post qualification training for professionals working in mental health, and offers the following training on responding to major incidents. We can bring any of these courses to your place of work and train a group of professionals for a fixed all-inclusive fee, no matter where you are. All of the training is accredited by APT and delegates receive the relevant level of APT-Accreditation.
For courses on Crisis Intervention click here
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.
Preventing PTSD after major events, at work and elsewhere.
A 3-day course. (2-day version also available.)
It is difficult to know what to do after a major incident, but 'nothing' is rarely the best option.
Major incidents such as patient-suicide, assaults, severe self harm, hostage takings etc can be very stressful for the staff concerned.
Through lecture, case study and role play, this course examines how best to respond to such situations to minimize the stress; when it's best to say little or nothing, when to get a group of staff together, what to say, what procedures to follow, etc. It provides very clear guidelines in an often confused and difficult area.
Crisis Intervention: Risk Assessment, Risk Management and Effective Intervention.
A 3-day course for Mental Health Professionals working Remotely or In-Person.
When we work in crisis, assessment, risk assessment / management, and intervention are inextricably bound up with each other. You cannot intervene effectively unless you have assessed the situation. But equally, you cannot just assess a crisis situation and ‘walk away’ – that will likely inflame it and make it worse. And we must operate by whatever channel is available - in crisis we cannot insist on ‘face to face only’ or phone only or anything else; people in crisis cannot tolerate that. So this course aims to provide the complete package: how to intervene successfully in crises, by whatever channel you work from.
Suicide Prevention.
Suicide prevention is a vitally important topic because it affects so many people, and it affects them so deeply.
Historically, professionals have found it a difficult subject to work with, and we have developed a series of courses with the aim of remedying that. Our suicide prevention training consists of:
1. Suicide Awareness (half-day)
2. Suicide-Risk Assessment and Management (2 days)
3. CBT Plus, for Suicide Prevention (3 days)
4. Using your existing skills to work effectively with suicide (2 days)
This enables you to build the perfect package for your needs.
Trauma-Focused CBT, for all ages.
A 3-day course.
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder is literally a life changing disorder. It is famously difficult to treat, yet Cognitive Behavioral Therapy can produce impressive results.
Experiencing a life-threatening event can leave the person with effects including: persistently re-experiencing the event (e.g. intrusive thoughts and images of it), a numbing of general responsiveness (e.g. less interest in significant activities and a feeling of detachment from others), persistent hyperarousal (e.g. difficulty sleeping, irritability, exaggerated startle response) adding up to significant distress or impaired functioning. This course examines effective Cognitive Behavioral Therapy based interventions (a) to ameliorate these effects and (b) to greatly improve the patient's quality of life where some effects cannot be mitigated.
Learning the Lessons from Major Incidents.
A 3-day course. (2-day version also available.)
In mental health and related areas there are a number of 'major incidents' that can occur, most notably to do with people losing their lives through suicide, violence or neglect, but also relating to sex offending and a whole range of serious but less tragic events. After a serious incident there often seem to be obvious 'oversights' or mistakes, although some of these are with the wisdom of hindsight. This important course aims to equip managers to examine such incidents and to draw the real lessons from them, while also distinguishing them from those apparent lessons from hindsight. Vitally, the course highlights the importance of 'free lessons' where serious consequences were avoided more by luck than by judgment. One of the major methods on the course is to learn the principles of analysis by examining major incidents from other areas – road traffic accidents and aviation – and then to apply those same lessons to mental health and related areas.
