April 10, 2013 • 5:14 pm 0
Amazon have now made “Facing Danger in the Helping Professions” available in Kindle Format. Click here for more information.
Filed under: Impact Training, Other Mental Health, psychosis, Violence, aggression, Danger, dangerous behaviour, Violence
April 9, 2013 • 9:30 pm 0
Just received a copy and I have to say it’s a great read! Get a copy – available via Amazon or through the Open University Press – recommend it to friends and review it on Amazon.
Filed under: Impact Training, Other Mental Health, psychosis, trauma, Violence, aggression, challenging behaviour, lone-working, personal safety, psychosis, rapid reactions, trauma, Violence
October 18, 2012 • 6:32 pm 0
We now have an estimated publication date of 8th April 2013.
Pre-orders can be placed with OUP at http://www.mcgraw-hill.co.uk/html/0335245838.html or Amazon at http://www.amazon.co.uk/Facing-Danger-Helping-Professions-approach/dp/0335245838/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1350583250&sr=8-1
Further information about the book can be found at www.facingdanger.com
Filed under: Impact Training, Other Mental Health, psychosis, self-harm, Suicide, trauma, Violence, aggression, dangerous behaviour, facing danger, helping professionals, Iain Bourne, OUP, Violence
September 21, 2012 • 9:23 am 0
Nottingham HLG are putting on an open access workshop delivered by Dr Iain Bourne on 28th November 2012. For further information and booking details visit:
http://www.hlg.org.uk/training/quarterly-training-schedule
If you are interested in this as an in-house course please visit www.dangerousbehaviour.com. The book that supports this course is due out in March 2013 and details can be found at www.facingdanger.com
Filed under: Impact Training, Violence, aggression, dangerous behaviour, facing danger, Iain Bourne, IMpact, personal safety, Risk, Violence
September 16, 2012 • 6:12 pm 0
You can now pre-order “Facing Danger in the Helping Professions” by Iain Bourne at https://www.mcgraw-hill.co.uk/html/0335245838.html
Filed under: Violence, aggression, facing danger, Iain Bourne, Open University Press, personal safety, Violence
September 14, 2012 • 3:38 pm 0
The book is now in production with the Open University Press. Details can be found atFacing Danger. This book introduces the Instant Aggression Model for the first time, together with specific skills for responding to reactive, disturbed and proactive aggression. Other chapters also cover violence in a range of group contexts (gang, mob, bystander, classroom), specific skills in working collaboratively alongside colleague to manage violent situations, risk assessments, lone-working, workplace policies and procedures, supervision and post-incident support. The book is written in an engaging and narrative style illustrated throughout with copious examples from practice.
Filed under: Violence, aggression, Iain Bourne, instant aggression model, Violence
July 30, 2012 • 11:15 am 0
This dramatic course delivered by Dr Iain Bourne is being made available by Sitra:
20th September 2012 in London
26th September in Leeds
Filed under: Impact Training, Other Mental Health, Violence, aggression, dangerous behaviour, Difficult, Disturbing, facing danger, Iain Bourne, Impact Training, Violence
January 3, 2012 • 3:31 pm 0
I am often amazed by the things that researchers get up to. The research below is, to me at least, both bizarre and intriguing.
What lies beneath the face of aggression?
Soc Cogn Affect Neurosci first published online December 23, 2011
Carré JM, Murphy KR, Hariri AR
Recent evidence indicates that a sexually dimorphic feature of humans, the facial width-to-height ratio (FWHR), is positively correlated with reactive aggression, particularly in men. Also, predictions about the aggressive tendencies of others faithfully map onto FWHR in the absence of explicit awareness of this metric. Here, we provide the first evidence that amygdala reactivity to social signals of interpersonal challenge may underlie the link between aggression and the FWHR. Specifically, amygdala reactivity to angry faces was positively correlated with aggression, but only among men with relatively large FWHRs. The patterns of association were specific to angry facial expressions and unique to men. These links may reflect the common influence of pubertal testosterone on craniofacial growth and development of neural circuitry underlying aggression. Amygdala reactivity may also represent a plausible pathway through which FWHR may have evolved to represent an honest indicator of conspecific threat, namely by reflecting the responsiveness of neural circuitry mediating aggressive behavior.
Affiliation: Department of Psychology, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, USA, 48202. justin@carrelab.com.
Filed under: Violence, aggression, amygdala, face proportion, gender
December 27, 2011 • 9:56 am 0
SITRA is now offering individual places on the DDDB course around the country. Details below:
SITRA- DDDB
Difficult, disturbing and dangerous behaviour
3 February 2012, Newcastle
9 March 2012, Bristol
15 March 2012, Southampton
27 March 2012, London
19 April 2012, Birmingham
18 July 2012, Southampton
20 September 2012, London
26 September 2012, Leeds
Anyone working in settings where people may behave in a difficult, disturbing or dangerous way. This is an intensive, practice-based course, which can be emotionally demanding as incidents are acted out by the trainer in front of the group. This provides a springboard for you to experience and examine some of your own reactions to difficult, disturbing, and/or dangerous behaviour.
At the end of the course, you should:
Feel more confident to deal with aggressors in crisis
Have a greater awareness of how their own feelings and reactions may help or hinder the resolution of a crisis
Be more able to identify indicators of violent behaviour, and take appropriate preventative measures
Have identified strategies for responding effectively to uncontained behaviour.
Price: Members £89/Non-members £129
Trainer: Dr Iain Bourne
Book now
Filed under: Impact Training, Violence, aggression, Danger, dangerous behaviour, Iain Bourne, personal safety, SITRA, training, Violence
March 27, 2009 • 1:57 pm 0
If you you are looking for a DDDB course in Scotland, Blue Skye Consultancy are offering places in Dundee on 30th April and Edinburgh on 1st May. Details and Booking forms can be found at:
http://blueskyeconsultancy.co.uk/dddbcourse.htm
Filed under: Impact Training, Violence, aggression, courses, dangerous behaviour, difficult behaviour, disturbing behaviour, Scotland, training, Violence
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