2020-2021 Catalog and Student Handbook 
    
    Mar 29, 2024  
2020-2021 Catalog and Student Handbook [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

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MHDD 105 - Conflict Prevention and Response Training


Credits: 2
Description
This course focuses on the application of prevention and response techniques to support persons in crisis or conflict with others. These applications are for use by service providers as approved by the State of Nevada, Division of Mental Health and Developmental Services.

Student Learning Outcomes
  1. Describe philosophies related to restraint reduction, sources and responses to stress, functions and responses to behavior, phases of crisis escalation and staff responses, and staff issues related to work stress and self control.
  2. Describe and/or identify preventive measures and de-escalation techniques to support a person in gaining self-control and preventing the use of physical restraint.
  3. Describe and perform prescribed escape, retreat strategies, and other defensive tactics to avoid use of physical restraint.
  4. Define trauma; describe the consequences, treatment implications, effects, and the reduction of trauma during restraint; and identify observable responses to trauma in both the general and mental health populations.
  5. Describe criteria for use of restraint and inappropriate interventions, identify unnecessary power struggles, and perform physical escorts as well as verbal and physical interventions.
  6. Describe the medical risks, hazards, and traumatic effects of restraint and perform approved techniques for the safe and humane use of restraint.
  7. Describe the purpose and components of documentation related to conflict prevention and response.
  8. Describe the purpose and basic components of the debriefing process.

Prerequisite: None



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