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Suicide-Risk Assessment and Management, course reviews.
The Association for Psychological Therapies prides itself on the written feedback we receive for our courses. Below is just some of the great reviews the Suicide-Risk Assessment and Management course has received.
"It was a thorough course with a lot of conversation and content for 2 days. I enjoyed the opportunity for reflection from both trainers and peers on the course. I am feeling more confident in working with those who are feeling suicidal and thinking about fixed and fluid factors when having conversations with students. Thanks for a great course!"
Sarah Bowers (Online Live Course)
"Excellent training course ... A valuable learning experience."
Steven Howden (Online Live Course)
"This was an informative and enjoyable course, with lots of useful information I'll bring to my practice."
Course Delegate (Online Live Course)
"Really useful, interesting and relevant course, great to have the opportunity to chat with other delegates and share practice ideas and experience. The materials are also very useful, thank you."
Georgia Ayling (Online Live Course)
"An excellent course, well presented, and great course handbook provided."
Lucy Sansom (Online Live Course)
"Very beautiful and well presented course. Very helpful, very interesting, very valuable course."
Dr Frank Bekomson (Online Live Course)
"A really useful course thank you. A good range and balance of learning material, case studies, examples and discussion. The checklists are really valuable ... A few of us have attended from the service and I am sure we will now be looking at how we can learn from this service-wide to provide more effective help for clients in distress and at risk. Thanks also for including references to people with LD, as sadly this is often not considered on courses."
Emma Kelly (Online Live Course)
"It was a thorough course with a lot of conversation and content for 2 days. I enjoyed the opportunity for reflection from both trainers and peers on the course. I am feeling more confident in working with those who are feeling suicidal and thinking about fixed and fluid factors when having conversations with students. Thanks for a great course!"
Sarah Bowers (Online Live Course)
"Excellent training ... a valuable learning experience."
Steven Howden (Online Live Course)
"This was an informative and enjoyable course with lots of useful information I'll bring to my practice."
Course Delegate (Online Live Course)
"Really useful, interesting and relevant course, great to have the opportunity to chat with other delegates and share practice ideas and experience. The materials are also very useful, thank you."
Georgia Ayling (Online Live Course)
"An excellent course, well presented and great course handbook provided."
Lucy Sansom (Online Live Course)
"This was a very well presented course with trainers who "Knew their Onions."
David Williams (Online Live Course)
"Very beautiful and well presented course. Very helpful, very interesting, very valuable course."
Dr Frank Bekomson (Online Live Course)
"Excellent presentation of a very important and necessary protocol for patient care. Presentation provided a greater awareness and understanding of suicide risk, management, factors involved in decision making and how to apply the principles to our individual wards. Collective group exercises and individual exercises reinforced the concepts of application."
Angela Mulling, Assistant Psychologist (Online Live Course)
"The content of slides was very informative and relevant to my practice and providing safe measures to reduce and manage suicide."
Emmanuel Smith, RMN (Online Live Course)
"The content of the course was relevant to my line of work. The tools; DICES and DICES Management Plan are user friendly whilst at the same time providing all necessary information."
Gillian Mutandiro, RMN (Online Live Course)
"Although I was not sure about remote learning I found this to be an enjoyable experience with really good interaction. The content was delivered with knowledge of the subject which made the course easy to follow."
Course Delegate (Online Live Course)
"Great training! Very informative. Worked very well with Zoom :) Well presented, thanks very much."
Course Delegate (Online Live Course)
"This is my first live online course I have done and I was impressed with how it worked ... the tutor very skilfully kept us on track and has certainly given us a lot to think about."
Pauline Long, Child and Family Psychotherapist (Online Live Course)
"Well presented course. Very relevant. I really enjoyed the information and also collaboration between students and instructor."
Course Delegate (Online Live Course)
"I have gained so much from taking this course. I am new to the counselling profession so this was invaluable for me, i.e., learning about the structure of how to assess risk and manage risk as well as all of the resources provided that will be helpful in moving forward. As well, I appreciate your presenting style and how you answered participants' questions with knowledge and experience, giving a broad scope to consider."
Crystal Shanks-Tracey, Counselling Therapist (Online Live Course)
"Really enjoyed this. The time flew by. Very engaging and informative. Thank you."
Dr Rita Campbell (Online Live Course)
"Comprehensive, actionable information, presented clearly. Open discussion was encouraged to make sure that this knowledge extends to personal practice."
Gregory MacLean (Online Live Course)
"The course was excellent. The instructor was very engaging and knowledgeable on the subject. It was easy to see he had a wealth of experience which really added to the course material."
Ian Smith (Online Live Course)
"Very useful, not only to deal with incidents and clients but also to facilitate better communication with other professionals and services!"
Marie Hainaut (Online Live Course)
Suicide-Risk Assessment and Management.
A 2-day course.
Thousands of people take their own lives every year, and we don't respond to it especially well: around 90% of people who end their own lives have seen their doctors in the previous year. We need to be able to spot those who are at risk, to manage the risk, and intervene to help people build a worthwhile life long-term.
This 2-day course focuses on the first two of those three factors, and is based on APT's acclaimed DICES programme for risk assessment and management. It focuses purely on the risk of suicide, and does so in a client-focused way, designed to help the client from the very first moment of contact. It covers:
1. Risk Assessment
2. Risk Management
3. How to verify and demonstrate you have assessed and managed risk
The course aims also to help us become relaxed and optimistic about seeing suicidal people, because we will know what to do: we will notice them, we will be able to manage their suicidality, we will be able to plan effective treatment.
Feedback Ratings.
We continuously monitor the quality of our training by obtaining feedback on the two key scales of relevance and presentation from every course delegate. Below are the average ratings for the last three runnings of this course, which are updated periodically.
Face-to-Face
Presentation: 98%
Relevance: 96%
Online Live*
Presentation: 96%
Relevance: 98%
*This online live ratings are taken from the last four runnings of the course in this format.
