10 Key learning objectives:
1) Recognise mental disorder in tenancies and fine-tune support, advocacy and safeguarding. This includes stress-related conditions, mood disorders, anxiety-related disorders, severe and enduring mental disorder including acute and chronic psychosis, challenges associated with personality disorder, understanding and recognising dementia and delirium, recognising mental disorder in antisocial behaviours, and factors associated with substance misuse. The training also focuses on behaviours that are not commonly associated with enduring or complex mental disorder.
2) Understand the specific challenges and safeguarding factors interwoven into personality disorder psychiatry. Improve communications, relationships, safeguarding, boundaries, advocacy and general guidance.
3) Understand the complex issues surrounding self-harm and suicide and develop appropriate assessments, safeguarding, conversational responses and safety planning strategies.
4) Understand the responsibilities and limitations of the local NHS / CMHT, Crisis Teams, The Police & Adult Social Care. Capacity arguments, the functions of the Mental Health Act and now how improve CMHT / statutory services engagements.
5) Understand how to support and signpost vulnerable tenants into the healthcare system more effectively, including those vulnerable to drug use and dual diagnosis presentations.
6) Understand best practice in motivating tenants to engage with your support and expectations and how to minimise poor engagement and unhealthy behaviours.
7) Understand risks associated with forensic mental health profiles. Improve and implement risk assessments, improve lone working safety and the safe management of hostile conflict.
8) Better understand and manage behaviours associated with hoarding and self neglect. Know how and when to escalate concerns to social services, safeguard vulnerable tenants, challenge capacity arguments and appropriately clean properties.
9) Understand and implement reasonable adjustments as required by the Equality Act 2010. Understand and recognise primary and secondary gain behaviours and know when and where to challenge non-compliance.
10) Improve risk assessments and risk management protocols for lone working staff and improve staff safety through an increased knowledge of forensic mental health risk.
This training is delivered by psychiatry-trained experts
This training is delivered by facilitators trained in psychiatry. We specialise in psychiatric illness and abnormal psychology, personality disorder and stress-related illness training, capacity law and mental health risk. We offer a wide-ranging, multi-disciplinary knowledge and skills with high quality, integrated evidence-based training that you can trust.
