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A 3-day course for 6-16 people.
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Background:
Tragically, some people embark on a psychotic - career -
of: disturbed adolescence ... psychotic breakdown ... recovery ... relapse. A sequence lasting a lifetime, through repeated disturbed delusional states and ending in a depressed, inactive and un-motivated state.
The aim of early intervention is to nip this sequence in the bud and to harry it at every stage. Wonderfully, the results of such interventions appear to be very promising indeed, at this - albeit
early - stage.
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In 3 days you will cover a great deal:
• Why it matters that early Kraepelinian ideas of schizophrenia are still influential.
• What is early intervention - the 3 different but connected concepts it covers.
• Examining some leading EI services - still new but providing templates for others to copy.
• Why intervene early? The current research, and examples of effective early intervention, and some examples the reverse.
• Engaging with - and assessing - clients and
their families.
• Empathizing with someone with first episode psychosis: talking within their belief system
without reaffirming delusional beliefs.
• Understanding the person's reaction to psychosis: adjustment styles and what they say for
our response.
• Suicide: prediction and prevention.
• Education, normalizing and de-stigmatizing: Reducing the impact - and coping with the
trauma - of diagnosis.
• Relapse prevention: Monitoring for early signs, and implementing the relapse-prevention
drill.
• Implication for your own service: establishing
or refining your early intervention
capabilities.
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What the course will do for you:
The aims of this course are simple. Namely: to acquaint you with the concepts and skills that
enable you to implement early intervention strategies; to enable you
to review and develop your early intervention service
if you have one; to motivate and enable you to develop one if you haven't.
The overarching aim is to be able to (a) help vulnerable adolescents so they never become psychotic,
(b) intervene intensively with people who have a first psychotic episode so they don't have a second and
(c) spot impending relapse and intervene to prevent it.
These are what the course strives for.
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A 3-day course for 6-16 people.
We bring the training to you for an all-inclusive fee of $7,795 plus GST/HST.
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"I have actually stopped applying
for any non APT courses as they far
exceed the content and presentation
of any other NHS course I have been
on in my 20+ years experience of psychiatry. Many thanks."
Tony White, GP Liaison CPN
"Very enjoyable, informative and educative. Has energised me
to try and be more effective in my practice again! Given me hope.
Thank you."
Kate Hardy, Nurse
"I thoroughly enjoyed this relevant
and well presented course. I got
a lot from the use of lectures, discussions and role-plays and I
am continuing to think about how this experience will positively influence my practice. I feel confident that the course will benefit many clients wellbeing. The course achieved all my expectations
and more."
Amanda Connell, Staff Nurse
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