Clinical Risk Assessment, Safety Planning & Triage in Mental Health Out Patient and Private Practice

Course
11 Lessons

Risk assessment is the area of practice where clinicians report the greatest professional anxiety. It is also the area where every therapist is expected to be competent from the very first client. In this course, you will learn how to assess risk across suicide, self-harm, violence, & abuse; how to build a safety plan & how to make defensible, least-restrictive decisions about level of care.

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Course content

Watch the following modules to view the content of this course. The course is separated into 7 different video modules addressing the course objective Please note, the tools share in the presentation were done so with the permission of the tool creators. Tools referenced but not explicitly shown in the course were done so in honoring of the copy right laws of the tool creators and links to free access of the tools are available in the resources section of the course.

Module 1 - Foundations of Clinical Risk Assessment.mov

Module 2 - Suicide and Self-Harm Risk Assessment.mov

Module 3 - Safety Planning as a Clinical Skill.mov

Module 4 - Violence and Homicidal Risk Assessment.mov

Module 5 - Abuse, Neglect and Intimate Partner Violence.mov

Module 6 - Triaging Client Care.mov

Module 7 - Special Populations and Putting It All Together.mov

Supplemental Resources

Clinical_Risk_Assessment_CE_Bibliography.pdf

Links screener tools and Assessments:

Post test and course evaluation

Participants must complete both the post test (with a minimum score of 80%) and the post course evaluation in order to receive the certificate of completion

Clinical Risk Assessment, Safety Planning & Triage - Post-Test