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APT's unified approach to working with Psychosis
Course 5: Dual Diagnosis - Psychosis and Substance Misuse.
A 3-day course for 6-15 people. 2-day version and refresher courses are also available. (Please note: you can attend one, some, or all of 'APT's unified approach to working with Psychosis' courses, in whichever order is best for you.)
Executive Summary:
Dual diagnosis is generally viewed as a difficult presentation to treat. Frequently the patient may be resistant to the idea of illness, disillusioned with conventional medication, and resigned to 'self-medicating'. Other times, such patients simply cannot see there is a problem. To bring effective help in such a situation is a very skilled task, and the focus of this course.
Agenda and learning objectivities:
- The interaction between substance misuse and psychosis: why (a) it is so common and (b) it is rightly of such concern.
- Why so many people with dual diagnosis seem unconcerned about it or reluctant to do anything to remedy it.
- When and how to talk to people with dual diagnosis so that they listen. Why this underpins every technique you use.
- How to determine what goals to aim at with each patient. How to have people 'see for themselves' what to do.
- How to have the client discuss solutions, not problems.
- Converting words into action: how to have the person act to improve their situation.
- How to give advice and impart skills in a way that the person will take notice of.
- How to 'ratchet forwards': maintaining gains made and building on them.
- Why some people resist input that will benefit them, and how to react to it in a way that benefits the person.
- Even when 'doing things right' there are traps to avoid. Where are they?
- The chance to practise skills without being put on the spot.
- How to build the course content into your professional development after the course has finished. Practising safely and effectively.
What the course will do for you:
- An understanding of why psychosis and substance misuse are so often seen together.
- How to talk to people with dual diagnosis, no matter whether they are unconcerned about it, concerned but seemingly unwilling to do anything about it, or have tried and failed to resolve it.
- How to deal with 'resistant clients' - people who 'fight against' all you try to do to help them.
- You will learn about Prochaska and DiClemente's Stages of Change, and their relevance to dual diagnosis.
- You will be able to combine Motivational Interviewing strategies and skills acquisition techniques with the cognitive approaches to help the person work through and achieve their own - adaptive - goals.
What you receive as a result of attending the training:
You will be registered as having attended the course, thereby gaining APT's Level 1 accreditation, and receive a certificate to this effect. The accreditation gives you access to online resources associated with the course and access to the online exam if you wish to uprate your APT accreditation to Level 2.
Your registration lasts indefinitely, and your accreditation lasts for 3 years and is renewable by sitting an online refresher which also upgrades your accreditation to APT Level 2 if you are successful in the associated online exam.
Your accreditation is given value by the fact of over 100,000 people having attended APT training. See APT accreditation for full details.
Booking this training is easy.
Option 1: We come and run the course in your organization:
We bring this 3-day course to your own organization for a fixed fee of $6,595 (plus tutor travel and accommodation expenses) and up to 15 people can attend. You can organize as many courses as you need, to cover the numbers you want to.
There is also a 2-day version available at $4,695 (plus tutor travel and accommodation expenses) inclusive for 6-15 delegates.
To book, email office@aptcanada.com, or click the button:
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Option 2: 'Train the Trainer':
If you or a colleague are a senior professional (e.g. consultant psychologist) and have a talent for communication and teaching, then you are welcome to apply to become an APT-accredited tutor. You could then tutor the course - or your chosen modules from it - in your own organization, under license.
This is not only a highly appropriate use of senior professionals, but it also saves your organization the tutor-component of the fee (around 50%) each time you run it or your chosen modules.
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Feedback Ratings.
We continuously monitor the quality of our training by obtaining feedback on the two key scales of relevance and presentation from every course delegate. Below are the average ratings for the last ten runnings of this course.
Average Presentation rating: 98%
Average Relevance rating: 97%
*These statistics were last updated in April 2017.
Written Feedback.
APT prides itself on the feedback we receive about our courses. Below are just some of the great comments the 'Course 5: Dual Diagnosis' course has received.
"Brilliant training, got loads out of it and will be using a lot of the techniques with clients. I would recommend to everyone!"
"Excellent facilitator - very interesting course and useful case study illustrations ... Best course I've been on for a longtime (if ever!) Thank you."