APT's unified approach to working with Psychosis
Course 5: Dual Diagnosis - Psychosis and Substance Misuse.
'Dual Diagnosis - Psychosis and Substance Misuse' is a 3-day course from the Association for Psychological Therapies (APT), a leading provider of accredited courses for professionals working in mental health and related areas.
It is the only Dual Diagnosis training that is APT-accredited and also gives you access to APT’s relevant downloadable resources for use post-course. The course is available for teams/organizations and can be attended face-to-face or online.
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, whilst your accreditation lasts for 3 years from the date of completion and is renewable.
Your accreditation is given value by the fact of over 150,000 people having attended APT training. See APT accreditation for full details.
Booking this training is easy...Booking Options... for individuals or small groups For teams and organizations:Option 1: Online Live and Exclusive course: Live and interactive online course, delivered via Zoom or Teams exclusively for your team or organization. Price: $7,990 for a group of up to 15 people (price includes a workbook for every delegate, posted to one address, or a PDF version can be provided). Extra delegates $525 per person.
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 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 each time you run it or your chosen modules (50% of the 'Online Live and Exclusive' fee, regardless of whether the course is held Face-to-Face or Online). To see the full benefits of this and to see whether you are eligible, click the button:
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Psychosis Training Courses
Course 1: CBT for Psychosis - Key Knowledge and Skills for Everyday Interactions ❯
Course 2: CBT for Psychosis - Assessment, Formulation, and Helping Strategies ❯
Course 3: Early Intervention ❯
Course 4: Family Interventions ❯
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, which are updated periodically.
Face-to-Face
Presentation: 99%
Relevance: 96%
Online Live*
Presentation: 96%
Relevance: 93%
*This online live ratings are taken from the last nine runnings of the course in this format.
Reviews.
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."
