Dual Diagnosis - Substance Misuse and Affective Disorder.
A 3-day course for 6-15 people (2-day version also available).
Executive Summary:
Dual diagnosis is generally viewed as a difficult presentation to treat. The patient may be disillusioned with conventional medication, and resigned to 'self-medicating'. And it is a frequent presentation: those with affective disorders are more likely to misuse mood-altering substanes, and those who misuse mood-altering substances are more likely to have affective disorders.
To make matters worse, patients may 'fall between two stools', with substance misuse services reluctant to treat them until they have addressed their affective disorder, and mental health services reluctant to treat them until they have addressed their substance misuse.
In summary, this is a very important presentation, and one which mental health and related services need to have a robust and well-worked response to.
Agenda and learning objectivities:
- The interaction between substance misuse and affective disorders: 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 substance misuse and affective disorders (like depression, anxiety, and bipolar disorder) 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 150,000 people having attended APT training. See APT accreditation for full details.
Booking this training is easy.
Online Live and Exclusive course (for teams and organizations):
Online Live Courses typically take slightly less time than the face-to-face course on which it is based (because of less group discussion and group exercises) but they are live and pleasingly interactive. Click here to view prices.
Delegates can be anywhere that is conducive to concentrating, all together or separate, so long as they have access to a computer with a good internet connection. And as a manager, you have ‘guaranteed completion’: you only pay for delegates who successfully complete (minimum 15).
Option 2: We come and run the course in your organization:
We bring this 3-day course to your own organization for a fixed fee of $12,400 (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 $9,085 (plus tutor travel and accommodation expenses) inclusive for 6-15 delegates.
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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 (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 taken from the last running of this course.
Average Presentation rating: 100%
Average Relevance rating: 98%
*These statistics were last updated in February 2020.
Reviews.
APT prides itself on the feedback we receive about our courses. Below are some of the great comments this Dual Diagnosis course has received.
"Great to have a refresher and affirm that what I do is correct. Lovely trainer – I think the best I’ve had!"
"Great course, well delivered by trainer. Good examples of case studies and focusing on key elements relevant to our role. Great resources and reaffirmed what we are doing is correct."
