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  • Relational Security Development Workbook

    Over 100 exercises plus competency assessment, reflection and planning tools for staff from healthcare workers to leaders to build workplace competency in the areas of relational security.

    This workbook enables services to comprehensively deliver on the Royal College Quality Network standards and provides an essential toolkit for supporting new facilitators in their roles.

    (Versions for forensic, acute, PICU and rehabilitation services)

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  • Organisational Tools

    Relational security adoption plan

    Strategic goals mapping to relational security

    Investigation tools with relational security focus

    Relational security for admission planning tool

    Relational security at discharge planning tool

    Case conferencing with relational security in focus

    Handover tools with relational security prompts

    Interview questions for leaders, ward staff and support staff

    Editable patient mix mapping tools

  • Staff Development Tools

    Multi-disciplinary team development presentations and group exercises in the 8 modules of relational security

    Relational Security Explorer (staff reflection/supervision version)

    Relational Security Explorer (leadership reflection/supervision version)

    Competency assessment framework for staff

    Competency assessment framework for leaders

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See Think Act - Your Guide to Relational Security

This is the third edition authored by Liz and published in June 2023 by the Royal College of Psychiatry.  The ‘look and feel’ remains the same, as does the overall model, but key developments to look out for in the third edition include:

  • An expanded definition of relational security

  • More emphasis on the potential of harm to patients

  • Links between relational security and trauma

  • Expanded service and leadership outcome measures

  • More reflective practice prompts

  • Guidance on how to construct a health outcome

  • How to map and evaluate the patient mix

  • Understanding the signatures of key events

  • How we use language and humour in our services

  • Preparing for therapeutic conversations

  • How we and patients use the environment

  • A meaning role for family and friends

  • Physical and digital connections outside the service.

The e-book is a .epub file that needs a compatible e-book reader to open

See Think Act Posters

Click on individual poster to download or use the links below for zip and pdf files of all posters

Relational Security poster
Relational Security poster
Relational Security poster
Relational Security poster
Relational Security poster
Relational Security poster
Relational Security poster
Relational Security poster

 Relational Security Explorer

Relational Security Explorer Wheel

This is the second edition authored and published in 2015 by Elizabeth Allen and the Royal College of Psychiatry

The Explorer was developed for staff to bring what they've learned in training to a discussion with the rest of the team about:

  • How things feel on the ward

  • How confident the team feel in the areas identified

  • What more they need to do to improve.

For newer editions of the Explorer such as leadership, supervision, serious events, incident debriefing, and handover, see Licensed Resources