Course Description

Risk awareness requires a broad understanding of diverse values and concerns that inform the meaning and nature of risk from the perspectives of the client, practitioners and other key stakeholders. 

Quality risk assessment is embedded in key foundations that enable identification and targeting of relevant risk and protective factors that can reduce the risk of harmful outcomes and support safety and wellbeing. 

For organisations making group bookings, there is an option of applied practice master classes. These will be tailored to the specific needs the service.


Enhancing Safety will guide you through the development and implementation of effective care planning, based on a 'Safety Profile’ and hence targeting the most relevant risk and protective factors for a given client. This both enhances safety and promotes opportunities for recovery.

Informed by contemporary evidence, participants will learn: 

  • How to conduct a ‘short-term risk assessment’ in collaboration with a client

  • Effective ways to engage in proactive care planning that promotes opportunities for well-being outcomes and reduces risk of harm 

  • How to integrate 'dignity of risk' and 'duty of care' considerations

  • The importance of the role of 'capacity' when working with clients

  • An effective method for monitoring client progress utilising the 4 elements of the ‘Improvement Cycle’ 

  • How to use goal-directed approaches to integrate care with long-term risk management

  • How to use measures of change that are client-focussed and Recovery-oriented.


Costs 

  • Foundational Learning only: 
    • online : $220 per person
    • discounts apply for orders of 20 persons or above


  • Foundational Learning with Applied Practice: 
    • Blended learning option (online course taken at participant’s own pace then half-day masterclass at venue organised by customer): $275 per person; minimum 15, maximum 30 participants per masterclass 


This course is part two of a two part program titled RESPONDING TO RISK, CO-CREATING SAFETY

Part 1 : Shared Understanding is available at the below link : 

https://our-curious-minds.thinkific.com/courses/shared-understanding

Course curriculum

  • 1

    INTRODUCTION

  • 2

    RESOURCES

    • Chloe case example and workbook

    • Safety Profile Resource.2022

    • Enhancing Safety SLIDES download

    • Further Reading for 'Enhancing Safety'
  • 3

    COURSE CONTENT

    • 1. SHORT TERM RISK ASSESSMENT

      FREE PREVIEW

    • 1.1. SHORT TERM RISK ASSESSMENT - case example

    • CHAPTER 1 - MCQs

    • 2. "HIGH", "MEDIUM" AND "LOW" RISK IN THE SHORT TERM

    • CHAPTER 2 - MCQs

    • 3. DIGNITY OF RISK PRINCIPLES

    • CHAPTER 3 : MCQs

    • 4. MENTAL CAPACITY

    • CHAPTER 4 - MCQs

    • 5. DIGNITY OF RISK PRACTICE

    • 5.1. DIGNITY OF RISK PRACTICE - Chloe example

    • CHAPTER 5 - MCQs

    • 6. RISK ASSESSMENT FOR LONG TERM SAFETY PLANNING

    • CHAPTER 6 - MCQs

    • 7. CONSTRAINTS

    • CHAPTER 7 - MCQs

    • 8. USING THE IMPROVEMENT CYCLE TO ENHANCE LONG TERM SAFETY

    • CHAPTER 8 - MCQs

    • 9. REVIEWING PROGRESS

    • CHAPTER 9 - MCQs

    • 10. REVISING THE PLAN

    • CHAPTER 10 - MCQs

    • Enhancing Safety Feedback survey

Instructor(s)

Forensic Consultant Psychiatrist

Andrew Carroll

Andrew is a forensic psychiatrist who has worked in public mental health for over 25 years in both Australia and the UK. He has extensive experience working in a range of services including inpatient units, crisis teams, community teams and prison clinics. He worked for 6 years on a rehabilitation unit at the high secure Thomas Embling Hospital in Melbourne. Currently, he works as the visiting psychiatrist to a large men’s prison in Victoria. He also has a busy private practice, which involves forensic assessment work for various agencies including Victoria Legal Aid, the Drug Court, the Office of Public Prosecutions, MACNI (the Multiple and Complex Needs Initiative), Department of Health and Human Services (Victoria) and the TAC. He regularly provides expert medicolegal opinions for private law firms, including opinions regarding ‘standard of care’ in the context of claims of negligence against mental health services. He has published extensively in the field of risk assessment, forensic mental health service provision, clinical decision-making and violence. He previously held the role of Senior Lecturer in Forensic Psychiatry at Monash University and is now an Associate Professor (Adjunct) at the Centre for Forensic Behavioural Science at Swinburne University of Technology. He also holds an honorary role at the University of Melbourne Department of Psychiatry.

Co Director

Brett Bridges

Brett is a practising mental health clinician, mental health consultant, educator, trainer and therapist. His extensive experience includes the specialist fields of personality disorder, acute mental health, complex care, forensic mental health, alcohol and other drugs, intellectual disability and corrections. He has previously held senior clinical roles at Spectrum (Personality Disorders Service for Victoria) and Forensicare (Victorian Institute of Forensic Mental Health). Brett has demonstrable success in consulting to organisational and systemic complexity and challenge, activating critical thinking, enhanced practices and key interventions that will enable a more functional and capable response to clients with mental health issues. This includes utilising recovery focused and trauma informed thinking in response to complex care issues and significant risk challenges. Brett is highly skilled in engaging multiple service providers in complex care scenarios where hostile or fractured work practices, systemic anxiety, dysfunction and paralysis have emerged. His services include: education, training, consultation, supervision and primary intervention.