Offering an array of topics designed to enhance educational and skill development.
Topics for training include Integrated Treatment for Co-Occurring Mental Health and Substance Use Disorders, Motivational Interviewing, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Trauma Informed Care, and many other topics.
These trainings are free for RADIAS Health Employees. If you are not an employee of RADIAS Health – please click here and use these forms to register for the training.
This half-day training will focus on learning suicide assessment and intervention skills. We will review the Columbia Suicide Severity Rating Scale [CSSRS] that are located in our forms in Credible for all RADIAS Health Programs. We will learn how to administer the assessment while seeing clients in all settings. This training will eliminate assumptions that these forms are difficult to administer and use with clients. This training will also help with expanding your knowledge about the risks for suicide, assessing a client's suicidal behavior and ideation, and how to intervene. We will learn and practice safety planning.
Training objectives:
Develop wider knowledge of factors involved with suicide
Broaden one's experience with the Credible forms
Increase knowledge with assessing suicidal behavior
Expand skill set with crisis planning and assessment
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
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
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.
