Online training in use of the Moss-PAS-ADD (ID) and Moss-PAS (ChA) mental health assessments

A two-day online course on using the Moss-PAS-ADD (ID) and Moss-PAS (ChA) interview formats in mental health assessments.

The Moss-PAS (ID) is designed to provide highly reliable information on psychiatric symptoms in adults, usually by informant interview. It's not a screening instrument, but is a sophisticated assessment, which uses a glossary of symptom definitions to guide the coding.

The Moss-PAS (ID) can be used to collect symptom information directly from an informant via a semi structured interview procedure, or can be completed on the basis of knowledge already possessed about the individual.

The system comprises three mental health interviews and a checklist. The interviews are designed to support and enhance the skill of clinicians, and to provide the highest quality of assessment in mental health research. The checklist is to aid the process of case detection.

The system follows DSM 5 and ICD 11, and maps closely to routine clinical practice. For 30 years the assessments have been available in book form, and are now additionally available for use with computers and tablets.

As with the live course, the total training is two days. However, the online format with some self-study means that the online contact time is about eight hours. In the UK and Europe this can conveniently be done in two sessions from 9.00 to 1.00 (with a coffee break).

There will be materials for self study, before the main sessions, and at the end of the interactive part of the course. In this way the facilitator aims to make the course a pleasure, not an endurance test!

The course takes a multi-dimensional approach to assessment, focusing not just on the psychiatric perspective, but also on behavioural, ecological and psychodynamic interpretations.

This course comprises of two four-hour online sessions, plus two hours of self-study and exercises.

PLEASE NOTE: Once you have booked onto this course you will be contacted by one of the ESTIA team and not a member of Maudsley learning. If you require additional information about this course, please contact Angela Degen angela.degen@slam.nhs.uk