Specialist Cover Assessments 101 with Diane Clare

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Presented by: Diane Clare

Location: Online

Price: $320.00 (prices include GST)

Start Date: 2 May 2025

End Date: 2 May 2025

This webinar addresses the changes that occurred on the 1st December, 2024 to the ACC Assessment process for sexual abuse claims. Formerly known as Supported Assessments, it has changed to Specialist Cover Assessments (SCA). These assessments will only be required for clients with complex needs, as well as where a diagnosis and treatment recommendations for complex needs therapy are indicated (known as Pathway B). This may or may not mean longer term therapy but does allow for a range of service options with more hours to accommodate these needs. Other clients will obtain services through their Lead Service Provider and use pathway A and do not require an SCA.

ACC provides learning modules on the changes to the system and these are freely available for registered and approved providers so they will not be repeated here. So, pathway A clients do not need an SCA, only pathway B.

It is designed to assist those quite new to completing Specialist Assessments, as well as being a refresher for those more experienced in the previous Supported Assessments in the earlier version of the ACC Sensitive Claims processes. The Presenter Diane Clare is an experienced clinical psychologist who has been providing Supported Assessments since the start of the Sensitive Claims service. This interactive training will address what works and what can hinder you in your practice for delivering the new version of these assessments.

NOTE: This training is not ACC endorsed training - it is a senior clinician's take. It offers guidance in how to tackle the task of providing these Specialist Cover Assessments (referred to as SCA), once you are an approved assessor. However, your attendance for this training is not a guarantee of ACC approval for you to become an assessor nor is it part of ACC's in-house training as it is a clinician's take on the practical and clinical challenges in this task.

Who Should Attend
This training is suitable for ACC Approved assessors and those seeking approval from ACC to become assessors.
PLEASE NOTE: This workshop offers guidance in how to tackle the task of providing these Assessments, once you are an approved assessor. However, your attendance for this training is not a guarantee of ACC approval for you to become an assessor nor is it part of ACC's in-house training as it is a clinician's take on the practical and clinical challenges in this task.

When: Friday, 2 May 2025, 9am – 3pm
Where: Online via Zoom
Contact: Faye [email protected]
For information and to register, please visit the website - https://www.grow.co.nz/specialist-cover-assessments-101/

About Diane Clare

Diane Clare is a registered Consultant Clinical Psychologist who has worked in mental health since 1981, been an ACC provider since the 1990s, and is seasoned presenter providing a range of workshops with an emphasis on practical solutions for clinical staff. She has a specialist interest in working with people recovering from complex trauma and is a Fellow of ISSTD.

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