Training Description:
This online training is 2 hours and comprised of 2 learning sessions.
The clinical assessment is the first meeting with the client and clinician to establish care. This can be a complex meeting with many priorities, including creating a welcoming, safe environment, attending to confidentiality and the limits of this, recognizing ways to attend to the individual needs of the client in a culturally competent, trauma-informed manner, assessing for safety and risk, and evaluating their presentation and symptomatology to determine an initial working diagnosis and treatment plan. In this training we will present evidence-based methods of conducting the clinical assessment and best practices for asking difficult questions and gathering information for the creation of an initial clinical formulation and treatment plan.