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Events in March 2024

  • Applied DBT Skills

    Applied DBT Skills

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    March 4, 2024

     

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    Trainer: Laura Lynett, LPCC, DBT-Linehan Board of Certification, Certified Clinician

     

    This course will highlight several of the skills taught in Dialectical Behavioral Therapy. We will follow a fictional client throughout the training and participant will discuss ways this client can utilize the skills discussed. It is recommended that participants take the Introduction to Borderline Personality Disorder and DBT training or have a basic understanding of Borderline Personality Disorder and DBT prior to taking this training.

    Objectives:

    Participants will be able to name the skills training modules used in DBT

    Participants will have a basic understanding of the types of skills taught in DBT

    Participants will be able to provide basic coaching around skill use

    Participants will be able to practice skill use and coaching during the training

     

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  • Mental Illness 101

    Mental Illness 101

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    March 12, 2024

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    Trainer: Ben Blanchette

    This course will give participants an overview of diagnoses most commonly seen in working with individuals who get services from RADIAS Health.  Participants will be able to describe the diagnosis system and will be able to identify symptoms of mental illness. If you are new to the field, or want a refresher on things you may have forgotten in college or grad school, this course if for you!


    • Participants will learn about mental health diagnoses and symptoms as presented in DSM 5


    • Participants will reflect on the stigma of mental illness and its interplay for people we serve


    • Participants will discuss mental illness in the framework of cultural, social, political and racial perspectives


    • Participants will work on maintaining empathy for the people we serve in order to reduce stress and compassion fatigue



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  • Leadership Series: Part 6:  Continuous Quality Improvement

    Leadership Series: Part 6:  Continuous Quality Improvement

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    March 15, 2024

     

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    Trainers: Julie Duncan and Alyssa Conducy

     

    ACT Team leaders have a unique challenge of both leading and managing within a highly structured and demanding model of care. Throughout this six part leadership training series, team leaders will gain skills needed to self-assess their teams' current practices in relation to ACT fidelity, problem solve and identify solutions to their team specific barriers, and build continuous quality improvement plans.

     

    Part 6:  Continuous Quality Improvement.  In this session models for assessing and implementing continuous quality improvement practices will be explored.  Team leaders will be taught how to develop and apply plans to facilitate their teams continued movement towards full fidelity.

     

     

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  • Crisis Intervention and De-escalation: Being Effective while Keeping Yourself Safe

    Crisis Intervention and De-escalation: Being Effective while Keeping Yourself Safe

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    March 20, 2024

     

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    Trainers: Jessica Metkowski-Gulden, MS, LPCC , Kelsey Gries, FACT Practitioner

    This training will provide an overview of crisis prevention, intervention, and de-escalation strategies through early intervention and nonphysical methods for preventing and managing individuals experiencing a crisis. The course will include discussion of: the crisis development model, staff's attitudes and approaches, non-verbal communication, verbal intervention, precipitating factors of a crisis, importance of developing rapport and knowing clients' history, environmental assessment, rational detachment, and follow up after a crisis. Staff will also learn personal safety techniques in the event a strike or grab occurs during a crisis situation. A post-test will be given to all participants at the end of this training.

     

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  • Suicide & Harm to Others - Risk Assessment and Intervention

    Suicide & Harm to Others - Risk Assessment and Intervention

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    March 27, 2024

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    Trainers: Dr. Steve Harker and Amy Acker

    This half-day training will focus on assessment, intervention and safety planning as it relates to risk of suicide or potential harm to others.  Specific risk factors and assessment strategies will be presented, specific to working on an ACT team. Effective tools for mitigating risk, including safety planning within the support and structure of ACT will be discussed.

    Objectives

    • Participants will develop their knowledge of factors that increase risk of suicided and harm towards self or others.
    • Participants will engage learning strategies for assessing suicide risk and safety planning.
    • Participants will explore strategies for assessing risk of harm towards others, along with risk mitigation strategies

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