Course Description

Navigating Risk - Empowering Recovery is a breakthrough course tailored specifically to the trending challenges experienced by practitioners in embracing a recovery focused approach to mental health work. This includes facing difficult and complex risk scenarios and medico-legal challenges utilising 'Values Based Practice' principles.

Drawing upon the latest evidence base this course delivers practical and applied learnings to practitioners equipping them with improved knowledge, critical insights and a solid learning platform on which to build their skills and confidence.

The micro-course is broken down into 3 carefully crafted and paced sessions; Challenges to Safety, Enabling Understanding, Enabling Collaboration, providing participants with a unique and engaging online experience unlike any other in the field. This involves:

  • presented slides (screencasts)
  • facilitated video examples
  • key reflections and discussions
  • practice tips
  • reflective questions
  • strategic tools and
  • easy to use resources for you to download and utilise as needed.

 

Learning objectives 

On completion of this course, you will be able to:

-apply risk assessment research findings to your practice

-understand the role of ‘risk factors’ and ‘protective factors’ when working with risk

-assist clients at risk of serious harm, by way of structured, evidence-based analysis of past behaviours

With a 30 day money back guarantee, there is no risk to you or your organisation. Register now and find out why this course offers a breakthrough in negotiating challenging risk scenarios whilst maintaining a truly recovery focused approach.


"The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing." Albert Einstein

Course curriculum

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.