Rapid Risk Formulation
- Assessment has a dual role, explore distress and capture hope
- Integrate multisource perspective on psychache
- Establish distress patterns and imminence of action
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?