Implementing a Forensic Risk Assessment Tool into a Mental Health Setting
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Training Description
Risk assessments instruments are increasingly being implemented into mental health settings around the globe to assist in making treatment and discharge decisions. This one-hour training will focus on effective methods of overcoming barriers to the fidelitous implementation of your chosen risk assessment instrument as well as how to design an effective training program and a quality assurance strategy for staff.
Trainer Biography
Quazi Haque, FRCPsych received his doctorate in psychiatry from the Institute of Psychiatry in London. He is currently Executive Medical Director of Partnerships in Care in the United Kingdom. He has published over 20 books, chapters and peer-reviewed works on risk assessment.
Learning Objectives
This training is designed to help you:
- Explain why we need to pay attention to implementation factors when introducing new risk assessment instruments into mental health settings
- Systematically identify implementation barriers that may arise within services
- Apply a range of practical solutions toward engaging practitioners, patients and other key stakeholders in the implementation effort
- Design an effective learning and development strategy for the workforce
- Prepare a longer-term dissemination and quality assurance strategy to help sustain and further improve implementation