The Vital Skill of Clinical Assessment

Event price: £125

Booking details: https://www.connexusinstitute.com/assessment

Connexus Institute is delighted to  offer this highly engaging and stimulating one-day online workshop.   

Introduction: Assessing a client’s mental health and risk status is a vitally important skill for anyone in private practice or with the responsibility of screening clients within an organisation before accepting them for therapy. Done well it invites and deepens trust, done badly it alienates the client and feels highly intrusive.  

This valuable and engaging one-day online course explores how you conduct a professional assessment of a client’s risk profile, assess their current level of psychological and emotional functioning, consider the use of formal psychological measurement tools, and ask difficult questions about suicide and safeguarding issues. The skill of assessment is doing all this while balancing the need to be empathic and highly responsive to your client’s subjective experience and story.     

What does the workshop cover? The…