Micro-credential - Safeguarding Adults at Risk of Abuse

This is a multi-disciplinary micro-credential which aims to provide a comprehensive understanding of the topic of and responses to the abuse of adults at risk. It aims to develop and enhance competencies related to the domain of at-risk populations and is open to professionals who work in any sector which provides care or services to at risk populations.

• The key concepts of adult safeguarding, including prevention.
• The impact of a rights-based approach in adult safeguarding
• Issues related to decision making capacity and adult safeguarding
• Theories of abuse and application to adult safeguarding case scenarios
• Policy, legislative and regulatory approaches in adult safeguarding
• Assessment and planning in adult safeguarding
• Multi agency collaboration in safeguarding case management-interventions
• Financial abuse
• Safeguarding and cultures of care-institutional abuse
• Learning from adult safeguarding serious case reviews
• Peer to peer abuse

Nursing & Midwifery – Courses – Trinity College Dublin (tcd.ie)