Risk Assessment in Psychiatry 2025 Programme
Risk Assessment in Psychiatry
Venue: Online via EventsAir Platform
Date: Friday 28 March 2025
The Risk Assessment in Psychiatry training event will provide an overview of the latest evidence on risk assessment for adverse outcomes in mental health.
The event will cover new work on assessment tools and their clinical application, including how to choose a tool, patient perspectives on involvement in risk assessment, innovations, and assessing violence risk in adult, forensic and inpatient settings.
Contact us
e: events@rcpsych.ac.uk
t: 0208 618 4244
Please note that the programme is still subject to change and all times are listed in GMT.
- 10.00am – 10.10am Welcome
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10.10am – 11.30am
Session 1
10.10am Risk assessment: general principles and how to choose an assessment tool
10.30am Assessing violence risk in first episode psychosis and general psychiatry
10.50am Patient and carer perspectives on risk assessment
11.10am Questions
- 11.30am – 12.00pm Morning break
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12.00pm – 12.45pm
Session 2
12.00pm Assessing violence risk in forensic and inpatient settings
12.30pm Questions
- 12.45pm – 1.30pm Lunch
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1.30pm – 2.25pm
Session 3
1.30pm Risk assessment clinical vignettes
2.00pm Suicide risk assessment in high risk populations (including severe mental illness, people in prison)
- 2.25pm – 2.55pm Afternoon break
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2.55pm – 3.50pm
Session 4
2.55pm How to link assessment and needs in clinical practice
Dr Daniel Whiting and Professor Seena Fazel
3.15pm Questions
3.25pm Innovations in risk assessment – collaborative risk assessment
- 3.50pm Close
To encourage open dialogue, scientific discovery and enrich learning, we provide our delegates with the opportunity to hear from a diverse range of views and presentations. All the speakers, panellists and participants views and comments are their own and not the established views of the College. Speakers should expect probing questions and healthy debate.
The College expects all content of event programmes, and the behaviour of the speakers and the delegates, to be professional, respectful and to uphold the College values.
The College does not endorse any programme content or behaviour displaying any form of prejudice or discrimination.
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