LPS CLINICAL ASSESSMENT GUIDELINES - for Improved Assessment and Delivery of Clinical Service to Involuntarily Detained Individuals

The agenda outline consisted of: ● Welcome and Introduction ● Project Overview ● Framing the Issues and Identification of underlying Issues ● Clinical Assessment Guidelines o Components of Ideal Assessment o Identification of Core Competencies ● Wrap Up During the meetings, participants provided critical analysis of the issues related to clinical assessment and involuntary holds and shaped a sound. [...] The CIBHS project team carefully explained the scope of the project, noting that the scope of the project does not include policy changes to the fundamental framework or legality of LPS. [...] The ability to quickly and effectively de-escalate and stabilize a given situation to the degree that the individual understands what is happening and is able, as much as possible, to comply with the instructions offered can significantly decrease the risk of adverse incidents and increase the level of safety for all involved in the crisis. [...] The quality of information that can be obtained from the detained individual in the subsequent stages of the assessment will largely depend on the extent to which that individual has been engaged in a relationship in which the service provider has come to be trustworthy, warm, accepting, competent, and reliable. [...] GUIDELINES 10.01 Provide the individual with an opportunity to say goodbye to staff and peers to the extent possible (respectful) 10.02 Assess, with the individual, progress that was accomplished during the hold (strengths-based) 10.03 Convey a realistic sense of the individual’s positive course of resolution that can be projected into the future, and assess the individual’s awareness of these pos.