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SUICIDE PREVENTION

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SAFE: 1-2-7

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Safety Conversation Training

Suicide Prevention: PROTECT

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Reducing Coercion in Care: PROMISE

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Inpatient Psychiatric Care: 333

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Recent Publications from the PROGRES Guide Team

 

Kar Ray M, Chow KK, Theodoros T, et al. LOVE in the time of Covid-19: a brief mental health intervention to overcome loneliness. Australasian Psychiatry. May 2021. doi:10.1177/10398562211010806

Theodoros T, Wyder M, Lombardo C, … Kar Ray M Life in 90 words: opportunities for person-centred care amidst COVID-19. Australasian Psychiatry. 2021;29(2):189-193. doi:10.1177/1039856220975280

Wyder M, Kar Ray M, Russell S, Kinsella K, Crompton D, van den Akker J. Suicide risk assessment in a large public mental health service: do suicide risk classifications identify those at risk? Australasian Psychiatry. January 2021. doi:10.1177/1039856220984032

Marianne Wyder, Manaan Kar Ray, Helena Roennfeldt, Michael Daly, David Crompton; 2020 How health care systems let our patients down: a systematic review into suicide deaths, International Journal for Quality in Health Care, Volume 32, Issue 5, June 2020, Pages 285–291, doi.org/10.1093/intqhc/mzaa011

Kar Ray, M., Wyder, M., Crompton, D., Kousoulis, A.A., Arensman, E., Hafizi, S., Van Bortel, T. and Lombardo, C. (2020), PROTECT: Relational safety based suicide prevention training frameworks. Int J Mental Health Nurs, 29: 533-543. https://doi.org/10.1111/inm.12685

Siskind D, Dark F, Carney K, … Kar Ray M. Placing rehabilitation at the core of assertive community treatment. Australasian Psychiatry. 2021;29(1):47-51. doi:10.1177/1039856220928876

Kar Ray, M., Lombardo, C., Syed, Z., Patel, N, Denman, C., Jones, PB. Embedding Recovery to Transform Inpatient Mental Health Care: The 333 Model; Psychiatric Services; Published Online:10 Apr 2019 https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.201800284 

Lombardo, C., Santos, M., Van Bortel, T., Croos, R., Arensman, E., & Kar Ray, M. (2019). Decision-making in crisis resolution and home treatment teams: The AWARE framework. BJPsych Bulletin, 43(2), 61–66. https://doi.org/10.1192/bjb.2018.94

Lombardo C, Van Bortel T, Wagner AP… Kar Ray M. PROGRESS: the PROMISE governance framework to decrease coercion in mental healthcare. BMJ Open Qual 2018;7:e000332. doi: 10.1136/bmjoq-2018-000332

Wilson C, Rouse L, Rae S, Kar Ray M. Mental health inpatients’ and staff members’ suggestions for reducing physical restraint: A qualitative study. J Psychiatr Ment Health Nurs. 2018 Apr; 25(3):188-200.

Wilson, Ceri and Rouse, Lorna and Rae, Sarah and Kar Ray, Manaan. Is restraint a ‘necessary evil’ in mental healthcare? Mental health inpatients’ and staff members’ experience of physical restraint. International Journal of Mental Health Nursing. Oct 2017; 26(5):500-512

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Testimonials

What students said about courses they attended?

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Intensive Simulation Training

Educational Psychologist, Hong Kong

The 7 SAFE Steps role plays initially were fairly intimidating, but as the day went this built up my confidence. Having real time feedback and learning from the demonstrations and the others in the group was invaluable. I now have a long list of things that I should do and not do.

peter

Consultant Psychiatrist

Australia

“AWARE helped me think about my own attitudes that I hold towards people in suicidal distress and how that impacts my clinical decision making as well as the way in which I supervise my juniors.”

manuel

Clinical Nurse Specialist

Australia

“ 1-2-7 is a simple but effective tool, it will change the way in which I approach the safety planning discussion. It ha helped me think about safety in a broader way and all the resources that I can pull on to support a person in suicidal distress. Strongly recommend it to everyone.”

john-doe

Psychologist

South Africa

“ The speed dating session in which we practiced the pain relief conversation was a real eye opener. Just saying the same words 5 times to 5 different colleagues within 5 minutes pushed up my skill levels significantly – just feel more confident talking about a person’s psychological pain and calling it for what it is. ”

elsie

Peer Worker

New Zealand

“ I wanted to skip DESPAIR and wanted to jump to ASPIRE, but going through the whole course in a systematic way brought home the importance of doing a thorough assessment and gaining an understanding of risk – DESPAIR looks straight forward even for those with lived experience to think about risk while supporting someone who is feeling suicidal.”

anthony

Consultant Psychiatrist

United Kingdom

“ Since I have been exposed to the PROTECT framework at WPA in Mexico, I can only think of it when it comes to teaching people about risk of suicide and self harm, it has been absolutely transformative for my clinical practice ”

jackson

Occupational Therapist

Italy

“ I found the educational sessions inspiring and it has rejuvenated me, striking the fine balance between risk and recovery is challenging and draining, but the care compass really makes it easy to conceptualize and talk through with a patient. ”

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