Key Knowledge & Skills for working with Lifestyle Issues that affect mental and physical wellbeing.
This is a 3-day course from the Association for Psychological Therapies (APT), a leading provider of training for professionals working in mental health and related areas in Canada.
It is the only such training that is APT Delegate Accredited and uniquely combines built-in APT Registration with automatic access to our renowned post-course resources to help you support your clients. It is available for both teams and individuals, face-to-face or online, and can also count towards the Extended Training in CBT course, or The APT Diploma in Working with common mental health diagnoses.
Executive Summary:
This course combines CBT and Motivational Interviewing to provide a powerful way of helping people to recognize lifestyle issues and to do something about them. This is important because of the current widespread recognition that lifestyle issues are inextricably linked with physical and mental wellbeing. Issues from smoking, drinking, exercise, and substance misuse, through to eating more healthily are all addressed.
Who should attend?
People who attend this course normally fall into one of two categories:
1. Groups of professionals who see patients in 1:1 treatment settings, have a significant degree of clinical skill, and wish to become proficient in helping their clients address lifestyle factors affecting their wellbeing.
2. 'Whole teams' (either in inpatient or community settings) seeking to develop a unified level of proficiency in motivational interviewing.
The professional affiliations of people attending this course include: mental health/psychiatric nurses, social workers, occupational therapists, clinical psychologists, psychiatrists, probation officers and others working in a variety of settings including: Substance Misuse, Forensic, Adult Mental Health, and Children & Adolescents.
Course Subjects:
- Definition and description of CBT and Motivational Interviewing, including the 'spirit' in which they are delivered..
- Reflective Listening and OARS skills.
- Identifying the goals the client wants to move towards ... and the goals that would work well for the client if only they did want to move towards them.
- Giving advice in a way that it is likely to be acted on.
- Generating change talk (where the client talks about changing) and responding to it in a way that develops and encourages it.
- Responding to sustain talk (where the client talks about sustaining the way they are right now) in a way that doesn't encourage it.
- Delivering the included information sheets on lifestyle issues.
- Developing hope and confidence that change is possible and worthwhile.
- Negotiating a plan of change, and judging when they are ready for this. The difference between an aspiration and a plan.
- Strengthening the client's commitment to the plan.
- Working with groups and applying all the principles we have covered.
- How you can continue to develop your skill after the course.
What this course will do for you. You will...
- Properly know about and be able to use a combination of CBT and Motivational Interviewing to help people address lifestyle issues.
- Work on-to-one or in groups.
- Know that a person's ambivalence about changing is a natural thing that we can work with effectively.
- Be able to generate motivation in people who are not motivated.
- Be able to help people form constructive plans, and have downloadable resources to assist you with this.
- Be able to boost people's faith in their own ability to succeed.
- Know how to respond constructively when a person is 'resistant'.
- Know how to give advice, and be able to do that skillfully and in a way that is likely to be acted upon.
What you receive as a result of attending the training:
You will be registered as having attended the course, thereby gaining APT Registration Level 1, and receive a certificate to this effect. The registration gives you access to online resources associated with the course and access to the online exam if you wish to uprate your APT Registration to Level 2 (note, the exam is inbuilt into the 'online anytime' version of the course).
Your record of attendance lasts indefinitely, whilst your APT Registration Level lasts for 3 years from the date of completion and is renewable.
APT Registration Levels are given value by the fact that over 150,000 people have attended APT training. See APT Registration 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: $8,230 + GST/HST 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 $540 + GST/HST per person. Option 2: Face-to-Face Onsite course: We bring the course and tutor to you, for an all-inclusive fee. Price: $13,150 + GST/HST and tutor travel and accomodation, 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 $855 + GST/HST per person. Option 3: '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 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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