Prevention and Management of Violence and Aggression (PMVA) 3 Day

• This 3-day course in the Prevention and Management of Violence and Aggression (PMVA) has been
  certified by Bild ACT as fully aligned to the RRN Training Standards.
  
  

Theory Elearning

• Legislation, Legal Frameworks + Ethical Considerations
• Legal Responsibilities + Reasonable Force
• Mental Capacity + Mental Health
• Reflective Feedback Questions

Day 1

• Re-cap on Reflective Feedback Questions + Group Discussion
• Challenging Behaviour, Behaviours of Concern
• Root Causes of Distress
• Creating a Supportive Culture
• Health, Therapeutic Relationships + Person Centred Care
• Populations and Locations
• Dynamic Risk Assessments
• Stages of the Assault Cycle
• Situational Awareness
• Identifying, Managing + Reflecting on Triggers
• Listening + Communication Skills (communication models)
• Indicators of Confrontational Behaviour

Day 2

• Risks Associated with Restraint
• Verbal + Non-Verbal De-escalation Techniques
• Disengagement techniques:
  
  
  
  • Wrist Grabs
  • Body Grabs
  • Hair/Clothing Grabs + Strangulation
  • Avoiding Punches and Kicking
  
  

Instruction + practice of:

Friendly Come Along - Non-Contact and stage one, two and figure of four

• Higher level safe holds:

        o Forearm hold
        o Thumb on palm hold
        o Clenched fist hold
        o Finger and thumb (escape and rescue)

• Team approaches:  
      o Upper arm wrap
      o Upper arm wrap to secure hold
      o Upper arm wrap to supine hold (ready to decent to floor)

Day 3

Instruction + practice of: -

• Supine Descent

       o Descent to floor in upper arm wrap
       o Upper arm wrap to elevated rest and return
       o Trouble drills (sniper position)
       o Securing legs in supine
       o Elevated rest to standing

• Seated de-escalation

       o Descent to chair
       o Trouble drills

• Unexpected and/or unintentional controlled decent to the floor
  where the aggressor dictates or initialises the downward movement
  (prone)

       o Descent
       o Upper rest to lower rest and return
       o De-escalation on floor
       o Legs in Prone
       o Turning Prone to Supine
       o Standing from Prone

• Seclusion Options

       o Using Safety Pod