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Distress Map: Evolving distress has generic patterns that can provide a template for collecting individualised information. Understanding how people sink into DESPAIR is key.
Key Concept
O Assessment has a dual role, explore distress and capture hope
o Integrate multisource perspective on psychache
o Establish distress patterns and imminence of action
Key Principles
Gain Knowledge:
- What are the different aspects of a comprehensive assessment?
- What are the signs and symptoms of relevant mental illnesses?
- What are the warning signs and fixed and fluid risk factors for suicide?
- What is acute risk, chronic risk and acute on chronic risk?
Develop Understanding:
- What are risk assessments trying to achieve?
- What are the problems and how to avoid them?
- How does distress evolve and why is it important to understand its evolution?
- Why is it important to break down the drivers of distress into bite size chunks?
- Where and when to call in more support?
Refresh Skills:
- How to transform internal distress discourse into external distress dialogue?
- How to develop common understanding of distress?
- How to make reliable judgement calls on intent, motivation and immediacy?
- How to engage family and friends in the assessment process?
- How to gain an understanding of the balance between reasons for living and dying?
We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
There is a difference between giving directions and giving direction.
Simon Sinek
Enquire - Identify - Estimate
How to assess, collate and process the available information?
How to ground risk threshold?
| Week 1: Assess Distress |
| Week 2: Build Empathy |
| Week 3: Coproduce Response |
| Week 4: Document Narratives |
| Week 5: Establish Direction |
| Week 6: Foster Awareness |
| Bibliography |
| Course Material |
| AWARE |
| DESPAIR |
| ASPIRE |
| NOTES |
| Country Classification |