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Available Courses

Available courses are listed below along with a brief description of what is covered on the course. For more detailed information on individual courses please e-mail or phone

Prices

Course Length

Price (total)

Hourly

£60 per hour

Half Day

£200

One Day

£350

Two Days

£700

Three days

£1000

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Prevention and management of violence and aggression (PMVA)

Please note that prices for individual courses may vary and the listed price assumes the hirer will provide adequate training facilities (excluding train the trainer courses where facilities are provided by ASDU). If the hirer is unable to provide adequate training facilities ASDU will source adequate training facilities near to the hirer’s location at an additional cost.

Who should attend​

Overview of course

Price

  • Identify possible causes of violence and aggression in mental health care settings

  • Identify triggers

  • De-escalation techniques

  • Understand the need to continually assess and evaluate the levels of risk posed by difficult and challenging people

  • Demonstrate how to escape safely from a variety of grabs and holds

  • Restraint techniques in standing, walking, sitting and prone

3 days

£1000

Recommended

 

2 days

£700

Health Care professionals​

 

Overview of course

Price

Who should attend​

PMVA Refresher

Health Care professionals who have previously completed PMVA training. Please note if it has been greater than one year since completing a PMVA course a full PMVA course must be completed again.

 

1 day

£350

  • Identify possible causes of violence and aggression in mental health care settings

  • Identify triggers

  • De-escalation techniques

  • Understand the need to continually assess and evaluate the levels of risk posed by difficult and challenging people

  • Demonstrate how to escape safely from a variety of grabs and holds

  • Restraint techniques in standing, walking, sitting and prone

Control & Restraint​

Overview of course

Price

Who should attend​

  • Identify possible causes of violence and aggression

  • De-escalation techniques

  • Learn effective 1 – 5 person restraint techniques in standing, walking, sitting and prone positions

     

     

     

     

     

2 days

£700

 

 

  • Anyone whose job may involve moving, escorting or dealing with people who may be none compliant or violent.

  • Health care professionals

  • Security personnel

  • Prison officers

Overview of course

Price

Who should attend​

Breakaways

  • De-escalation techniques

  • Learn effective defensive physical techniques (including- wrist, hair, throat and clothing grabs, punches, kicks and escorting/guiding techniques

  • Defence against punches & kicks

1 day

£350

 

 

  • Anyone who worried about being grabbed or attacked

  • General public

  • Health care professionals

  • Security personnel

  • Prison officers

Overview of course

Price

Who should attend​

Lone working

  • Anyone who works on their own when dealing with people

  • Street canvassers

  • Door to door sales people

  • People with jobs requiring home visits

  • Understand the risks associated lone working
  • Risk assess lone working situations
  • Understand the legal aspects of lone working
  • Use safety protocols to manage different lone working situations
  • Understand the impact of their body language, words, and phrases when managing conflict
  • Use practical/physical techniques to manage aggressive situations
  • Report incidents and near misses

1 day

£350

 

 

Overview of course

Price

Personal Safety

Who should attend​

  • Anyone who worried about being or attacked, wanting to reduce the risk of violence or aggression

  • Anyone wanting to learn to better defend themselves​

     

  • The Law and Self Defence

  • Risk Assessment - Taking stock

  • Target Hardening - Don’t be easy prey

  • Recognise and de-escalate or defuse hostile situations.

  • Deal with attacks and violent crime.

  • Defence against strikes

  • Pre-emptive Strikes

  • Release from Grabs & Chokes

  • Maintaining Personal Space

  • The Effects of Adrenaline - Counter Acting Fear

     

1 hour sessions

£60

 

Half day

£200

 

1 day

£350

 

 

Overview of course

Price

Who should attend​

Conflict Management

  • Ensure that clients are treated with Dignity and Shown Respect

  • Foster an atmosphere of non-escalation through social contracts

  • Generate Voluntary Collaboration, Cooperation or Compliance

  • Encourage consistent Initial Contacts, Empathy and Persuasion in your interactions

  • Improve Safety through De-Escalation Skills

  • Improve relations and communications between employees​

1 day

£350

 

 

  • Jobs involving interaction with clients / public

  •  Anyone who works in a team or has to interact with work colleague

     

Overview of course

Price

Stress Management

Who should attend​

  • Causes of stress

  • Effects of stress

  • Identify stress triggers

  • Knowing when you are stressed

  • Identifying stress in others

  • Dealing with stress

  • Stress-busting exercises

     

1 day

£350

 

 

  • Professionals

  • Anyone who experiences stress through work​

     

Overview of course

Price

Who should attend​

Resilience

  • Understanding what resilience is

  • Building resilience

  • What supports and undermines resilience

  • Identify resilience strengths

  • Look at default behaviours and how to change them

  • What happens physically when under pressure

  • To build confidence

1 day

£350

 

 

  • Professionals

  • Anyone who experiences stress through work

  • Anyone who experiences conflict at work

     

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