Risk Assessment and Treating Clients in Crisis by David Nowell

Risk Assessment & Treating Clients in Crisis by David Nowell

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• Discover a systematic strategy for evaluating suicide risk assessment
• Identify traits associated with violent or suicidal behavior
• Strategies to improve interview and mental status exams
• Six techniques to increase validity in the risk assessment interview
• Avoid malpractice claims

This seminar recording is guaranteed to increase your skills and raise your confidence as you encounter high risk clients and situations. You will walk away with the tools needed to meet the current professional and legal standards of care to accurately assess and treat clients in crisis.

• Integrate worksheet (provided) for best-practice documentation of current risk, clinical reasoning and safety planning
• Strategies to perform interviews and mental status exams in adversarial situations
• Manage acute risk versus chronic risk
• Guidelines to determine appropriate level of intervention based on current risk
• Follow-up protocol for high-risk circumstances
• Identify cultural factors in determining severity of stressful events
• Role of the mental health clinician in threat assessment
• Document nuanced clinical decision-making with greater confidence

High Risk Clients

• Suicide risk
• Risk-potentiating stressors
• Identify protective factors
• When to conduct and document risk assessment
• Frequency of assessment with your high risk clients
• Variables that contribute to increased violence

Clinical Skills Specific to Risk Assessment

• A comprehensible risk assessment protocol
• Best use of Mental Status Exam
• Strategies for eliciting key clinical data
• 6 techniques to increase validity in risk-assessment

Managing Clinical Risk

• Manage acute risk vs chronic risk
• Safety planning vs “safety contracts”
• Involving clients in safety
• School or workplace “threat assessment” versus self-harm assessment

Documentation

• The 3 P’s of effective clinical documentation: Parsimony, Payment, and Protection
• Documentation principles which drive excellent clinical care
• Avoiding malpractice claims
• Examples of effective clinical notes
• Risk-assessment worksheet

More information about Medical:

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Medicine encompasses a variety of health care practices evolved to maintain and restore health by the prevention and treatment of illness.
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In recent centuries, since the advent of modern science, most medicine has become a combination of art and science (both basic and applied, under the umbrella of medical science).
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