Risk Assessment, Management, and Mitigation: Smart Choices, Hard Choices in the Treatment
8:30am - 12:30pm CST
Location: Virtual via Zoom
Fee: $15 full members; $60 partial members & nonmembers
Trainer(s): Tony Thrasher, DO, MBA, DFAPA
Continuing Education Hours: 4.0
Course Description
This will be a four hour, interactive approach on risk management, assessment, and mitigation. Specifically, we will process not only educational aspects on the best practices, but we will also manifest real time cases, collaborations, and perspectives on threat assessment. Additionally, this presentation will have focus on the decisions needed, the documentation required, and the quality assessment (over time) of these interventions. By discussing this in a group format, we will maintain focus on the needed components of trauma informed care, patient centered processes, psychological first aid, and employee well being.
Learning Objectives:
- Process why there is a need to assess risk (legally and clinically).
- Describe the difference between Risk assessment and Violence prediction.
- Discuss the concepts of suicide, homicide, and their varied presentations
- Converse on the Top Ten phrases that can cause complications when documenting risk.
- Deliberate on what phrases can be used from a lens of psychological first aid and trauma informed care.
- Explore how this topic continues to manifest in the upcoming Era of the Open Note.
- Engage in a discussion of how these cases could evolve in real time with a combination of external stakeholders including education, social services, healthcare, health and human services, and law enforcement.
About Your Trainer
Tony Trasher, DO, MBA, CPE, DFAPA
Dr. Tony Thrasher is a board-certified psychiatrist employed as the medical director for the Crisis Services branch of the Milwaukee County Behavioral Health Division. He received his psychiatric training from Washington University in St. Louis at Barnes Jewish Hospital, and he is the Immediate Past President of the American Association for Emergency Psychiatry (AAEP).
He is a Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association (APA), and he currently serves as the President for both the Wisconsin Psychiatric Association (WPA) and the Wisconsin Association of Osteopathic Physicians and Surgeons (WAOPS).
In 2023, he is also proud to have served as the Editor for the Oxford Press Primer on Emergency Psychiatry as well as being the Editor for the American Psychiatric Association’s Maintenance of Certification FOCUS journal centering on the core curriculum of Emergency Psychiatry!
Most recently, he was inducted into the American College of Psychiatrists, was named a Top Doctor for 2022 by Milwaukee Magazine, earned his accreditation as a Certified Physician Executive (CPE), and is fortunate to work with Psychiatric Times on a series of Mental Health Minute webinars. Additionally, he received a 2023 Exemplary Psychiatrist Award from NAMI (National Alliance on Mental Illness).