Courses
Impact provides a number of courses dealing with a wide range of issues within the spectrum of mental health:
Impact provides a number of courses dealing with a wide range of issues within the spectrum of mental health:
Difficult, Disturbing and Dangerous Behaviour
Target Group
No prior training in this field is assumed, although it is helpful if participants work in similar backgrounds. The course will be adapted to reflect the experience, work roles and settings of the participants. Groups of up to 30 participants can be accommodated.
Aim
This is a practice-based course aimed at helping participants to develop confidence and personal strategies for dealing appropriately and safely with behaviour that is difficult, disturbed, and dangerous.
Content
The one-day course includes:
The two-day course includes Everything on the one-day course, plus
”Difficult, Disturbing, & dangerous Behaviour” is ideal for whole teams and organisations, including volunteers and service users, and can be delivered to groups of between 9 and 36 participants.
Consultant: Dr Iain Bourne
"Training with a touch of Theatre"
This unique and dramatic course illustrates how staff can respond to some of the most challenging aspects behaviour encountered in their work. The training unfolds through a series of critical incidents that are narrated and dramatised before the group, bringing the material to life, and allowing participants to consider, in detail, the point of crisis, and the skills necessary to achieve a successful resolution.
This is a stark and realistic contrast to the usual “Managing Aggression” courses, providing a fascinating and practical journey through the terrifying world of danger and violence.Target Group
No prior training in this field is assumed, although it is helpful if participants work in similar backgrounds. The course will be adapted to reflect the experience, work roles and settings of the participants. Groups of up to 30 participants can be accommodated.
Aim
This is a practice-based course aimed at helping participants to develop confidence and personal strategies for dealing appropriately and safely with behaviour that is difficult, disturbed, and dangerous.
Content
- Understanding the dynamics of rage
- Exploration of personal reactions to immediate threat
- Assessment of danger, and strategies to minimise risk
- Skills and strategies for responding to violent and destructive behaviour
- Working with dangerous behaviour influenced by drugs, alcohol, and psychotic conditions
- Teamwork, dealing with multiple aggressors, and difficult behaviour in group settings
- Post-incident stress reactions
The one-day course includes:
- BEYOND REASON
An exploration of explosive behaviour, perceptual distortions, and dissociative processes - FACING RAGE ALONE
R’s story. Away from the workplace. Risk assessment and risk reduction strategies. Facing extreme and imminent danger, highly destructive and explosive behaviour, intervening with little margin for error. - A CATACLYSMIC CRISIS IN THE OFFICE
J’s Story. Incidents within the workplace. Chaotic behaviour fuelled by drugs, alcohol, and, psychosis. Local crisis management procedures.
The two-day course includes Everything on the one-day course, plus
- ACUTE MENTAL HEALTH CRISES
An in depth examination of the skills necessary to respond to crises involving hallucinations, delusions, paranoia, and other disturbances. Skills to help voice hearers take control of dangerous command hallucinations - THE STRANGER
An experiential look at the management of crises in public settings, and the principles of effective crisis teamwork - AFTERWARDS
B’s Story and an exploration of the impact of violence on the worker.
”Difficult, Disturbing, & dangerous Behaviour” is ideal for whole teams and organisations, including volunteers and service users, and can be delivered to groups of between 9 and 36 participants.
Consultant: Dr Iain Bourne
Resources
In addition to supporting Impact courses dangerousbehaviour.com provides and open resource on a wide range of issues within the field of mental health. See below for articles on:
In addition to supporting Impact courses dangerousbehaviour.com provides and open resource on a wide range of issues within the field of mental health. See below for articles on:
Impact Training & Consultation
Fax & Phone: +44 (0)1275 394 774
E-mail: impact@dangerousbehaviour.com
Web Site: http://www.dangerousbehaviour.com
design by Oliver Bourne
Fax & Phone: +44 (0)1275 394 774
E-mail: impact@dangerousbehaviour.com
Web Site: http://www.dangerousbehaviour.com
design by Oliver Bourne