Course content for the Working with Substance Misuse training course
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Available in 2-day and 3-day versions. (What’s the difference?).
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Background:
Substance Misuse in the UK is a major mental health problem. It can cause massive disruption to the life of the sufferer and also to those around him or her. The evidence suggests that it is an increasingly prevalent problem in the UK that needs actively addressing.
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Aims:
The aims of this course are to (a) introduce participants to the nature of abused substances, what their effects are, what the prevalence of misuse is etc. and, more particularly, (b) to equip participants with the most effective techniques for effective intervention.
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The course covers:
• The range of misused substances. What they look like, what their effects are, who takes
them, and how they are referred to, colloquially and technically.
• The nature of addiction.
• Deciding when it is and is not realistic to work with a person.
• Initial assessment, case conceptualization and measurement of progress.
• How to respond to people who clearly do have a misuse problem but deny it.
• Working with people who admit they have a problem and will discuss it with you, but fail
to do anything about it.
• Helping a person prepare realistic plans for overcoming their misuse.
• The role of self-help groups in misuse.
• How to support a person in implementing a feasible plan of action.
• Filling the gap: many people's lives have become partly to depend upon their misuse.
Taking away the misuse removes a large part of their lives. What now?
• The maintenance stage. Once 'cured' the mistake is to pull out; how to help the person
maintain their new-found improvement.
• Capitalising on the ambivalence that people feel about giving up or reducing their
misuse.
• How genuinely to persuade people of the benefits of resolving their problems.
• The role of motivational interviewing.
• How to notice – and generate – “self-motivational statements”.
• How to deal with resistance from clients.
• How to give advice in a way that is likely to be accepted.
• How to develop your own empathy for the client, and why this is important.
• The concept of 'self-efficacy' and how to develop this in the client.
• Being aware of the major traps in substance misuse, and how to avoid them.
• The APT Essentials Series of Courses eg. affirming and summarizing.
• The important difference between a lapse and a relapse and how to respond to each.
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What will you gain from this course:
1 You will know about all the major mood-altering substances, colloquial terms for them,
what they look like, what their effects are.
2 You will know 'addictive' means and what is and what is not addictive.
3 You will have a reliable and effective format for working with people who misuse
substances.
4 You will know the major traps to avoid when working with substance misuse.
5 You will know about 'motivational interviewing' and 'the stages of change'.
6 You will be better at dealing with clients who seem keen to block any progress.
7 In general, you will be able to take a more positive and effective stance in helping people
who misuse substances.
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How can I get more involved?
1. Participate in this course
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We come to your organization and train a group of 6-16 people for an all-inclusive fee, so you need to inform your training manager about the course, and see if they will commission it in.
2. Bring the course to your organization
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Up to 16 people can attend this course, and we bring it to you for an all-inclusive fee. The 3-day course costs $7,995 plus GST/HST and the 2-day course costs $5,995 plus GST/HST. Both courses have the same syllabus; the longer one provides the opportunity for greater depth in terms of case presentations and assimilation exercises. Both courses have exemplary ratings and feedback from delegates who attend them.
The fee covers all costs: the tutor, tutor's expenses (travel and accommodation), a workbook for every delegate, course evaluation (evaluation document returned to you), registration of all delegates on the APT database, individual certificates of attendance sent to each delegate after course attendance, certificate sent to you listing all who attended. You provide the teaching room, any refreshments you want to, and the delegates!
To arrange this course, email office@aptcanada.com - or call 1-877-893-7057. We will be pleased to hear from you.
3. Have this approach become institutionalized within your organization.
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We can help you find the most cost effective approach to training up sufficient numbers and getting systems in place so that this approach becomes institutionalized within your organization. Contact us to discuss: email office@aptcanada.com - or call 1-877-893-7057. We will be pleased to hear from you.
4. Become a tutor for the course
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In order to achieve this you need to become an APT associate. If you are successful in achieving this then you can tutor the course in your own organization, simultaneously saving your organization half the course fee. There are also significant other benefits to being an associate. If you are a senior clinician with a real flair for putting things across, then click here.
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Download printable Microsoft Word information Sheet
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As a bona fide APT event, this course automatically has accreditation from The Association for Psychological Therapies. This means (i) that it contains the right amount of relevant information for its duration, and (ii) the information is presented in an engaging way, and in a way that will make it likely to be used after the course. |
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