What is Mental Health Secure Escort Training?
Our staff writer, Vanessa, recently talked with Senior Trainer Zeb Glover about our prevention and management of violence and aggression training course for secure mental health transport teams, to help prepare them for some of the unpredictable behaviours and risky situations they face in their work. What is Secure Escort or Mental Health Transport work? […]
Restraint Reduction Outcomes
Restraint Reduction OutcomesThe new trainer team for this service began rolling out their own programme (a four-day, full-spectrum course for their LD/MH setting) to their staff in October. By December, they had seen dramatic restraint reduction outcomes in key indicators such as time-in-restraint, floor-based-restraints and number-of-restraints for their high-frequency service users. “The amount of […]
Breakaway training in care
Breakaway training in care – an example of positive outcomes At one point early in the training programme it becomes important to look at physical self-protection training, especially if the service data shows that some service users, when distressed, target staff with violence by grabbing, hitting or throwing objects at them. In the past, the […]
Becoming an effective PMVA Trainer
Probably the most important decision a company makes when it wants to change the culture of their workplace is this: Which personalities will lead the training effort? In this case, the organisation chose three of their most senior carers, who had all been in the service for long enough to know the common flashpoints, […]
social contract in restraint reduction
The Social Contract in Restraint Reduction What happens when people can’t predict with any certainty how an organisation will respond to their transgression of an agreement? If a social contract is broken, and the consequences could slide on a scale from ‘nothing’ to ‘serious’ – how many people would take the chance to break the contract? […]
Training needs analysis for restraint reduction
This is an excerpt from our 18-page Case-Study about how we achieved significant Restraint Reduction outcomes with this training programme. To read the case study and learn about the project, please visit our Restraint Reduction page. continued… In line with our accredited quality assurance process with the Institute for Conflict Management, and with the cooperation of […]
Mental Health Escort Training: excellent Feedback from Frontline and Management
Secure Escort Training: modern, relevant, pragmatic. Hello! Gerard O’Dea here, Director of Training for Dynamis and I have been busy these past few weeks with a series of in-depth training engagements with Secure Escort and Patient Transport teams. Our secure escort training remit has been to provide help to these teams who provide safe transport […]
Secure Escort: Courses for Mental Health Escort Teams
Mental Health Escort Training A leading ambulance mental health escort services firm asked our team to devise and deliver a series of training workshops for their mental health escorts. The training was to focus on the main violence flashpoints which these teams meet during the course of their work for mental health services. The teams […]
Workshop for Parents: “tools to protect my child”
Gerard is just back from a trip to Liverpool where he was commissioned by a local authority social work team to give assistance to a group of parents who look after their children with complex needs at home. The workshop gives parents a chance to ask a use-of-force, de-escalation and physical interventions specialist about the […]
The potential for actual management of aggression
The POTENTIAL for ACTUAL MANAGEMENT of AGGRESSION Twice in this article from the Herald newspaper members of staff at a facility in Ireland mention the specific training system that they are trained in, presumably for their own personal safety, for the control of violent clients they have in their care and for the protection of others – MAPA […]