Details
Product Details
- Average Rating:
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6
- Faculty:
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Harry J. Keener, PhD, LPC, LMFT
- Duration:
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5 Hours 50 Minutes
- Format:
- Audio and Video
- Copyright:
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Dec 08, 2016
- Product Code:
- POS051215
- Media Type:
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Digital Seminar
- Access:
- Never expires.
CPD
Continuing Professional Development Certificates
- PESI Australia, in collaboration with PESI in the USA, offers quality online continuing professional development events from the leaders in the field at a standard recognized by professional associations including psychology, social work, occupational therapy, alcohol and drug professionals, counselling and psychotherapy. On completion of the training, a Professional Development Certificate is issued after the individual has answered and submitted a quiz and course evaluation. This online program is worth 5.75 hours CPD.
Additional Info
Program Information
Access for Self-Study (Non-Interactive)
Access never expires for this product.
Objectives
- Maximize knowledge of ethical and legal implications of mental health emergencies.
- Demonstrate how to complete a thorough mental status interview to better assess for psychosis, suicide, homicide, and violence.
- Display knowledge of crises of lethality including crisis intervention strategies.
- Describe appropriate clinical documentation to minimize legal liability.
- Develop effective safety plans for mental health emergencies to promote client safety.
- Maximize knowledge of psychotropic medications and their interactions to minimize medication emergencies.
- Create awareness of burnout, vicarious trauma and compassion fatigue and strategies to promote healthy self-care.
Outline
Legal and Ethical Obligations in Crises Situations
- The similarities & differences between ethical and legal responsibilities
- When to use safety contracts and “no-harm” contracts
- Court cases and mental health law that impact crisis management
- Mandated reporting
- Documentation strategies that protect you legally and ethically
Clinical Assessment of Psychiatric Disorders
- Understanding and identifying psychotic symptoms
- Psychiatric disorders that heighten risk of crises
- Interplay of substance abuse, trauma and mental health emergencies
- Assessing and diagnosing common psychiatric disorders
Psychotropic Medication and Mental Health Crises
- Improve knowledge of psychotropic medications and their intended effect
- Psychotic medications and dangerous interactional affects
- Metabolic issues with typical and atypical anti-psychotics
- Medications with narrow therapeutic rangers
- How to assertively collaborate with prescribers
- How to work with clients to safely manage medication side effects
Risk Assessment in Suicidal Clients
- Risk versus protective factors in suicide
- Identifying clients at high risk for suicide
- Develop clinical safety plans
- Strategies and techniques to assess suicide risk
- Difference between self-injurious behavior and suicide
- When to hospitalize and how
- Managing suicidal clients in an outpatient setting
- Psychometric suicide risk assessments
Homicidal and Violence Risk Assessment
- How to safely assess the homicidal client
- Maintaining safety for yourself, co-workers and clients
- Identifying the types of aggression
- Preparing for and managing client violence with the PAR model
- Risk factors for violence
- Handling threats of violence in the office, school and workplace
- When and how to hospitalize
Emergencies from Substance Abuse
- Assessing the chemically dependent client
- Interview strategies and techniques
- When to refer for medically-supervised detoxification
- The multiple levels of care addiction
- Strategies for assessing and working with dually diagnosed clients
Burnout, Compassion Fatigue and Vicarious Trauma: Therapists in Crisis
- Burnout, vicarious trauma, secondary trauma, and compassion fatigue
- Interplay between burnout and compassion fatigue
- Strategies for counseling the burned out therapist
- Techniques to address vicarious trauma
- Use of the PRoQOL5 instrument to better inform treatment
Target Audience
Addiction Counselors, Case Managers, Counselors, Marriage & Family Therapists, Nurses, Psychologists, Social Workers and other Mental Health Professionals
Reviews
Overall:
4.3
Total Reviews: 6