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Assessment, Risk Assessment, and Intervention, in Crisis Situations.
Crisis Intervention Training is a key concept for many professionals and Assessment, Risk Assessment, and Intervention, in Crisis Situations is a 3-day course from the Association for Psychological Therapies (APT), a leading provider of training for professionals working in mental health and related areas in the UK and Ireland.
It is APT-accredited and also gives you access to APT’s relevant downloadable resources for use post-course. The course is available for teams and individuals and can be attended face-to-face or online. (2-day version also available.)
Executive Summary:
This course is designed for people who have predominantly short term contact with clients, either by phone or face to face. Typically those clients will be in or approaching a psychotic episode, suffering with a personality disorder, or so distressed that they may harm themselves or attempt suicide. The key aspects of these disorders are therefore covered, and, in particular, major effective strategies for effective brief intervention. Additionally the principles behind these interventions are covered, to facilitate long term beneficial impact, along with risk assessment in such high stress situations.
Course Objectives/Agenda Items:
- How to engage effectively with the person who is in crisis. The key concepts covered in this section (a) mood-matching (how to match your mood to someone who may be highly agitated without becoming agitated yourself), (b) validation and genuinely understanding what is going on.
- Use of open and closed questions; in crisis situations both of these have important uses over and above gaining information.
- How to identify the trigger for the crisis and maybe modifying the person's response to it.
- How to help the person determine whether they are making a good response to their crisis and what better response might be possible.
- The nature and importance of the (crucial) encouragement and support. The key features of specific illnesses notably (a) psychosis and (b) personality disorder. How to talk to people who are in a highly delusional state (including talking within the person's belief system) and how to respond to overt threats of suicide and non-suicidal self-injury.
- The key nature of Hope and how to give and maintain it.
- Medium-term interventions with people in crisis including: (a) helping people learn from their experiences, (b) helping people relax and 'self-soothe' and (c) problem-solving.
- The appropriate 'manner' for professionals working in crisis: the friendly professional versus the professional friend.
- Finishing. How to finish contact in a constructive and courteous way.
What you receive as a result of attending the training:
You will be registered as having attended the course, thereby gaining APT's Level 1 accreditation, and receive a certificate to this effect. The accreditation gives you access to online resources associated with the course and access to the online exam if you wish to uprate your APT accreditation to Level 2.
Your registration lasts indefinitely, and your accreditation lasts for 3 years and is renewable by sitting an online refresher which also upgrades your accreditation to APT Level 2 if you are successful in the associated online exam.
Your accreditation is given value by the fact of over 150,000 people having attended APT training. See APT accreditation for full details.
Booking this training is easy...Booking Options... for individuals or small groups For individuals or small groups:Option 1: Online Live course: a live event hosted online via Zoom. (And you don’t even have to have your own Zoom account.) A live and interactive online course, ask questions, make your observations, ‘Chat’ to other delegates. Open for you to attend from your home or workplace. Choose from one of the following dates to attend (2-days): 23-24 June 2025 Price: £330 plus VAT per person. The fee covers: tuition, hardcopy workbook*, certification, registration, and accreditation at APT’s Level 1, with option to sit the online exam to upgrade to Level 2. Times: 10am - 4pm (UK) daily, including 45 minutes for lunch. *PDF workbooks are sent to those outside of the UK.
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Feedback Ratings.
We continuously monitor the quality of our training by obtaining feedback on the two key scales of relevance and presentation from every course delegate. Below are the average ratings for the last ten runnings of this course, which are updated periodically.
Face-to-Face
Presentation: 95%
Relevance: 93%
Online Live
Presentation: 95%
Relevance: 94%
Reviews.
APT prides itself on the feedback we receive about our courses. Below are just some of the great comments the 'Assessment, Risk Assessment, and Intervention, in Crisis Situations' course has received.
"The course is almost like doing Psychiatric training again, albeit in 3 days, "fantastic"."
"Excellent course and facilitator. Really enjoyed and learnt a great deal. Feel much more positive with regards to being a more effective practitioner, intend to make changes to how I practice. The most effective course I have attended in a long time!!"
