Key Knowledge & Skills for working with Alcohol and Substance Misuse.
'Key Knowledge & Skills for working with Alcohol 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 in Canada.
It is the only Alcohol and Substance Misuse 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:
'Mood altering substances' have been around virtually since the dawn of time, so some people argue that there is every reason to accept them as part of everyday life. However, for some people, the maladaptive use of such compounds devastates their lives. Initially a pleasurable diversion, the substance in question may gradually acquire a dominant part in the person's life, insidiously wreaking havoc on relationships, finances and career, and threatening the very continuation of their lives. And it is a difficult process to reverse; hence the need for a structured and evidence-based approach from those who aim to help.
Who should attend?
People who attend this course normally fall into one of two categories:
1. Professionals who see patients in 1:1 treatment settings, either in specialist substance misuse services or not, have a significant degree of clinical skill, and wish to increase their ability in working with alcohol and other mood altering substances.
2. 'Whole teams' (either in inpatient or community alcohol and substance misuse settings) seeking either to boost their level of expertise or to develop a common approach.
The professional affiliations of people attending this course include: mental health/psychiatric nurses, social workers, occupational therapists, clinical psychologists, psychiatrists, probation officers and others.
The course covers:
- Merging the 5 factors in modern CBT with Motivational Interviewing and Couples Therapy to form a coherent approach.
- What is substance misuse and why is it important and why is it so widespread?
- The applicability of CBT Plus, to substance misuse.
- The overall plan: the 4 stages that are almost always necessary for success.
- The first session or two, and especially how to conduct an effective Assessment: the ten headings you need to cover.
- Case-conceptualisation: making sense of the information you have gathered, using the 6 Ps.
- The tutor takes the role of a patient, for delegates to practise on; delegates do a 6Ps case conceptualisation on the case presented.
- Motivating the patient: the use of Socratic Dialog and its similarity with questions from motivational interviewing. A list of essential questions to use at various stage in therapy.
- The top 10 dysfunctional thinking styles, including All or Nothing thinking (which may not be so dysfunctional in the context of substance misuse).
- Diary Keeping and the importance of focussing on behavior in detail and reconstructing it where necessary.
- The Plan for a typical session: the 7 key headings you must cover every time.
- Problem Solving: how good problem solving can result in the development of a solid plan of action.
- The Social surroundings. “I can't stand it without a drink.” … “It's very difficult not to when everybody else is doing it.” … etc. How to help the patient firm up a good and realistic plan to combat these.
- Couples Therapy: (a) improving the relationship between patient and partner and (b) how the patient's partner can play a helpful role.
- How to easily evaluate progress: the importance of gathering both subjective and objective data; how to do it easily. The importance of gathering data both from the patient, and from significant others.
- How to apply what has been covered on the course back at work.
- Registration and Feedback.
What the course will do for you:
- You will be able to apply a coherent combination of CBT, Motivational Interviewing and Couples Therapy to alcohol and substance misuse.
- You will know the 4 stage sequence necessary for success in treatment of alcohol and substance misuse.
- You will be shown how to conduct an effective assessment and make sense of the information you gather using a 6Ps case-conceptualisation.
- You will have practice in doing so and have checklists to help you.
- You will know the importance of motivating the patient, know how to do it, and have a list of questions to use to help you.
- You will know about dysfunctional thinking styles, and how to use one of them powerfully in the alcohol and substance misuse field.
- You will be able to guide your patients into constructing a life they want, away from alcohol and substance misuse. You will know the importance of developing a Plan for this, and have a form to help do this easily.
- You will know the 7 key headings you should cover every time you see a patient, whether in a formal 1:1 session or informally.
- You will know how to improve the relationship between a person and their partner if they have one, to remove the need for mood altering substances.
- You will know how to help the patient's partner play a helpful role in therapy and how this can be formalized if necessary.
- You will know the 2x2 matrix which enables you to demonstrate the progress you make.
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.
Your registration is given value by the fact of over 150,000 people having attended APT training. See APT Registration for full details.
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Reviews.
APT prides itself on the feedback we receive about our courses. Below are just some of the great comments the Key Knowledge & Skills for working with Alcohol and Substance Misuse course has received.
"Excellent, well-presented course with very good learning materials, relevant case studies, and a top class presenter."
"This is, without doubt, one of the most comprehensive and informative courses I have ever attended. It is certainly a practice I shall be utilising in my regular position. It was beautifully and openly presented and I feel will be something I shall not forget in a hurry. I would very much appreciate receiving another course should it come up."
