Edgework offers training in a customized format to suit the needs of your agency, be it a mental health facility, social service provider, hospital or school. This training is presented at a level of clinical sophistication and detail tailor-made to the particular responsibilities of your staff. When staff feel secure in their skills to handle the worst situations, they achieve a much more calm and relaxed, even spacious attitude towards their clients, patients or students. 

Your clinical, teaching, or intervention skills will be greatly enhanced. When you feel both strong and confident, you are able to offer a powerful compassion that draws even volatile people to you in trust.

• The Elementals: Strategic Communication with Individuals with Character Disorders for social service personnel and mental health professionals (details)
• Grace Under Fire: Effective Strategies with Aggressive and Mentally Ill Individuals for mental health professionals, social services personnel, schools and hospital staff (details)
• Self Protection and Evasion Tactics for Inpatient and Outpatient Settings for hospitals, mental health centers and schools (details)
• Interventions with Suicidal Individuals for mental health professional, social services personnel, schools and hospital staff (details)
• Training Concerning Domestic Violence for prosecutors, social service personnel and/or domestic violence advocates exclusively, or as an interdisciplinary training with law enforcement (details)
• Grand Rounds: Clinical Supervision Concerning Difficult Cases for mental health agencies, hospitals, and other clinical settings dealing with mentally ill and personality disordered individuals (details)
• Grace Under Fire: Effective Strategies with Aggressive and Mentally Ill Students, Family Members and Other People on School Grounds for teachers, administrators, counselors, mental health professionals, nurses, and other school staff members (details)