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SEVERE AND INTRACTABLE PROBLEMS

Severe and intractable problems training from one of Canada's leading providers of intensive short courses.

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Severe and Intractable Problems
ADDRESS™Course
Stopping Self Harm
Working with Substance Misuse
Helping People at Risk of Suicide

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Stopping Self-Harm ...
and Replacing it with Something Better

The title of this course captures the philosophy behind it. Self-harm, though inexplicable to anyone who has never felt the urge to harm themselves, normally serves a very clear purpose. The secret of success is, therefore, to identify that purpose and achieve it in a less traumatic
way. Simple in theory, far from simple in practice, this course examines exactly how to achieve
it successfully.

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.
For full details of this course click here.

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The ADDRESS™ Course for
Working with Personality Disorder

A powerful integrated package for working effectively with Personality Disorder.

This course combines relevant aspects of Cognitive Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy
and Motivational Interviewing to form a powerful and systematic intervention for personality disorder. It highlights the problem behaviors associated with personality disorder, how to conceptualize those behaviors in specific cases, how to facilitate insight and motivation
in the patient, and how to generate change strategies. Importantly it also gives participants
a chance to practise applying them to prepared scenarios.

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.
For full details of this course click here.

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Key Knowledge and Skills for
Working with Substance Misuse

How to un-devastate a person’s life.

Although this course covers the nature of the substances that are misused, their colloquial
terms etc, its real focus is a clear psychological approach to treating substance misuse.
Leaning heavily on Miller and Rollnick’s Motivational Interviewing and Prochaska and DiClemente’s Stages of Change the course describes a 5 step system for working and
takes participants through it step by step.

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.
For full details of this course click here.

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Helping People at Risk of Suicide

Effective and empowering strategies for working with this potentially very
rewarding group.

This course covers the assessment of suicide risk but primarily focuses on how to help
suicidal people both short and long term. So it covers, for example, how to understand
about ‘hopelessness’, how to reduce it, and how to use the major long-term mood-raising interventions. Similarly, why monitoring progress is important, and gives you a form that
helps do it. Importantly it also covers what to do when a patient suddenly feels suicidal again
after you have been seeing them for a while. In total it aims to cover all the major elements to working effectively with suicide.

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.
For full details of this course click here.

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"I have thoroughly enjoyed this course. I would recommend it to everybody working in crisis teams anywhere in the country. The course is tailor-made to the needs of those working in Crisis Teams and other areas like Duty CMHT's. Thank you very much for such an excellent course."

Rajay Herkanaidu, Services Manager - Counselling People in Crisis

"This was an excellent course, very
well presented, informative and useful. Both the theory and practical sessions
were interesting and useful and the opportunity to revise information for
quizzes helped to consolidate learning."

Marie Ansell, Mental Health
Practitioner - The ADDRESS™ Course
for Working with Personality Disorder

"This course was excellent. It was
relevant, very well structured and presented in a very engaging and
reflective way. I never ‘drifted off’ once! Thank you."

Susan Brown, Consultant Psychiatrist
- Stopping Self-Harm ... and Replacing
it with Something Better

"I found this course very beneficial.
Not only did it introduce me to new
working model and new skill of
motivational interviewing, it also
reaffirmed my existing knowledge
and experience."

Course Delegate - Key Knowledge
and Skills for Working with
Substance Misuse