Risk Assessment & Treating Clients in Crisis (Nowell HS 013005)

Course overview

-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