The course consists of 6 live, webinar-style sessions (75 minutes of instruction + 30 minutes of discussion/questions = 105 minutes total) that teach best practices in crisis assessment, response, and disposition recommendations. Additional resources and materials are provided to participants.
Registration is $149 per person and participants can receive University of New Hampshire Continuing Education Units (CEUs) and a Certificate of Completion for MHIDD Mobile Crisis Response Training.
Facilitators: Alyse Scura and Micah Peace Urquilla
Who should attend?
- Mobile Crisis Responders, Clinicians & Supervisors
- Mental Health and/or IDD Case Managers /Service Coordinators
- Emergency Services Clinicians
Session 1: Introduction to Training Course & IDD-MH
- IDD overview
- MH aspects of IDD
- Biopsychosocial approach
Session 2: Presentation of Mental Health Diagnoses in People with IDD
- Overview of most commonly occurring MH diagnoses
Session 3: Mental Health Assessment Considerations for People with IDD
- Information gathering
- Collateral contacts
- Establishing rapport, assessing PERMA
- Knowing the right questions to ask
- Environmental considerations
Session 4: Emergency Assessment
- Conducting a mental status exam
- Assessing vegetative functioning (baseline exaggeration)
- Safety/risk assessments (including suicidality)
- Biopsychosocial recent stressors (including medication side effects)
Session 5: Recommendations/Disposition Planning
- Disposition recommendations
- Considering assessment data in dispositions
- Negotiating safety with system
Session 6: Tying It All Together
- Wrap-up, lessons learned, next steps/action planning
Course Learning Objectives
At the end of this course, participants will...
- Identify how common mental health conditions may present in persons with IDD
- Identify the most common mental health conditions within the IDD population
- Clarify difference between a person’s presentation and their diagnostic understanding
- Apply skills and approaches learned within sessions to crisis assessments of individuals with IDD-MH
- Integrate information learned into disposition recommendations
Continuing Education
In order to receive a NCSS Certificate of Completion for and 0.75 University of New Hampshire CEUs (7.5 contact hours) participants must:
Attend each Zoom Webinar session (If unable to attend a particular session, a recorded version will be available)
Read weekly case vignette prior to session and complete a case vignette worksheet
Complete a pre- and post-survey at the beginning and conclusion of the course as well as a short training evaluation following each session