- The DICES® Risk Assessment and Management System -

Many professionals see risk assessment as tedious at best, anxiety-provoking at worst, so we wanted to construct a reliable system that is reassuring and empowering, exciting even! So we created the DICES^® System and now over 6,000 professionals use it. What they love about it is that it teaches the essential risk triad in an enjoyable way, and in a way that actually helps them to produce great clinical work. The risk triad is:

• Notice and assess any risk present.

• Manage the risk: take action to minimise the possibility of the risk happening.

• Demonstrate that you have assessed and managed the risk as well as it is possible to do so, and so move on to deliver timely and effective treatment.

The course covers:

Module One: Core knowledge about risk assessment and management.

• Clarifying what our professional responsibilities are in relation to risk assessment and management.

• What happens when things go wrong: themes from inquiries.

Module Two: Risk assessment and the DICES checklists.

• The nature of risk-assessment, the problems associated with it, and how to avoid them.

• Fixed and fluid factors and the importance of each.

• Video analysis: what are the risks associated with this patient?

• Introducing the DICES^® series of checklists, and practice in the use of Brief-DICE.

• Using DICES-S (suicide), and an examination of factors associated with suicide.

• Using the other DICES checklists, covering: self-neglect and vulnerability; violence to others (including you the professional); sex offending; risks that older people are at; risks posed by people who misuse mood-altering substances; risks that children and adolescents are at, including toddlers and unborn children.

Module 3: Risk Management.

• Definition and description of risk management: once you have noticed a risk, you need to do everything you can to prevent it happening.

• Options for managing risk – (a) where there is a risk of harm to self, (b) where there is a risk of harm to others (possibly including you or other professionals), (c) where there are multiple risks.

• The DICES risk management checklists, listing the key areas you are expected to address.

• A worked example of risk management.

Module 4: Demonstrating the risk has been assessed and managed competently.

• Assessing risk and managing risk are both vital, but you also have to demonstrate that you have done it well: using the DICES® acronym for this.

• Whose benefit is this for - the professional, the patient, the organisation, all of those?

• The limits of risk assessment and management: your duty now to provide timely and effective treatment if possible.

What this course will do for you:

• It will provide you with the DICES^® checklists, effectively enabling you to become 'instant experts' on risks around: Suicide; Self-Neglect and Vulnerability; Violence; Sexual Assault.

• You will have checklists covering risks specifically applicable to older people, children and adolescents, and people who misuse mood-altering substances. Also a screening checklist, to assess whether any at all of the above are relevant in a specific case.

• You will have a simple and empowering definition of risk management, and know how to manage risk in the best ways possible. You will know where the risk management traps are, and how to avoid them.

• You will be able to demonstrate that you have assessed and managed risk to the highest standards, and that you maintain risk assessment and management habits that are up to 'best practice' standards.

• You will be registered at APT as having attended the course, and receive a certificate to acknowledge your APT-Accreditation and registration.

Bookings:

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