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DICES
Helping People at Risk of Suicide
Helping Angry & Violent People to Change
Learning the lessons from Major Incidents

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The DICES® Risk Assessment & Management System

A cogent system that actually facilitates clinical work, this is one of our most renowned courses. Thousands of UK professionals have already attended it.

With the starting point that excellent risk management involves excellent clinical practice, the DICES® Risk Assessment and Management System shows what is necessary to properly
assess and manage risk easily, reliably and to the benefit of all, and this accounts for its staggering popularity.

Part one covers the nature and theory of risk assessment and management: why we do
it and what we aim to achieve by it. Part two covers risk assessment specifically: if you
don't notice the risk there is no chance you will manage it correctly. Part three covers risk
management: there is no virtue in spotting a risk if you are not able to manage it. The end
result is that not only do you know about risk assessment and management, you also have
the ability and the equipment to do so reliably and well.

A 3-day course for 6-16 people. (2-day version also available.)
We bring the training to you for an all-inclusive fee of £4,110 plus VAT.
For full details of this course click here.

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Helping People at Risk of Suicide

Effective and empowering strategies for working with this potentially very
rewarding group.

This course covers the assessment of suicide risk but primarily focuses on how to help
suicidal people both short and long term. So it covers, for example, how to understand
about 'hopelessness', how to reduce it, and how to use the major long-term mood-raising interventions. Similarly, why monitoring progress is important, and gives you a form that
helps do it. Importantly it also covers what to do when a patient suddenly feels suicidal again
after you have been seeing them for a while. In total it aims to cover all the major elements
to working effectively with suicide.

A 3-day course for 6-16 people.
We bring the training to you for an all-inclusive fee of £4,110 plus VAT.
For full details of this course click here.

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Helping Angry and Violent People to Change

Written by William Davies, the author of Overcoming Anger and Irritability, this
is a top 'anger management' course.

This, APT's Anger Management course, focuses primarily on working with individuals (rather
than groups, which are covered, but more briefly) who are habitually angry and sometimes violent. It covers the problems of working with such people but principally focuses on
strategies for helping them overcome their anger and violence. Importantly it also
recognises depression as a major cause of irritability and anger.

A 3-day course for 6-16 people.
We bring the training to you for an all-inclusive fee of £4,110 plus VAT.
For full details of this course click here.

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Learning the Lessons from Major Incidents

For years, our customers have said they wished APT did a course with this title.
Well we do now.

It aims to balance two conflicting demands. On the one hand an organisation wants its people
to feel autonomous, confident and effective. On the other hand an organisation needs to be 'a learning environment', learning from mistakes without damaging the people that have made them. Taking aeronautical 'near-miss' investigations as a model of no-blame investigations,
this course aims to provide you with the skills to conduct thorough, constructive investigations
that are sure to learn the lessons that should be learned, and act on them as they should be
acted upon.

A 3-day course for 6-16 people.
We bring the training to you for an all-inclusive fee of £4,110 plus VAT.
For full details of this course click here.

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"This was positive and uplifting training
that I believe is necessary for all mental health workers to go on."

Adam Cook, Occupational Therapist -
The DICES® Risk assessment and
Management System

"This was one of the best courses I
have ever been on in a career spanning twenty years ... I very much hope that it
will be 'rolled out' to other trust employees so that it will help us all to share similar perspectives and language."

Christine Little, Course Delegate -
The DICES® Risk assessment and
Management System

"One of the most motivating, engaging
and professional training seminars I've been to. The facilitator not only had a
great deal of credibility in the subject,
but an ability to really facilitate learning, questioning and practicing ... will be recommending it to my colleagues."

Tania Nicholls, Senior IOT - Helping People at Risk of Suicide

"Really enjoyed the 3-days ... the whole course content is very though provoking and the accompanying workbook is thorough and well presented. An
excellent course to attend - thanks!"

Pam Abbey, Nurse Practitioner -
Helping People at Risk of Suicide

"Best Course I have ever attended,
will greatly benefit from having learnt
about how to overcome and anger and irritability. No criticisms whatsoever."

Course Delegate, Social Worker -
Helping Angry and Violent People
to Change

"I have greatly enjoyed the course and it will be greatly beneficial to my working practice. The model given is very usable and can be transferred to other issues as well as anger and aggression."

Eve Wicks, CPN - Helping Angry and Violent People to Change

"Fantastic, very relevant ... would recommend to it for all clinical
managers."

Appiah Okinka, Senior Nurse -
Learning the Lessons from Major incidents

"Very informative and empowering."

Michael Sarfo-Bans, Ward Manager - Learning the Lessons from Major incidents