APT's unified approach to working with Psychosis, Course 4:
Family Interventions in Psychosis.
'Family Interventions in Psychosis' 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 Family Interventions for Psychosis 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. (2-day version 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:
Current evidence is that the "education and support of families" is an effective intervention for psychosis. This should come as little surprise: by delivering this we stand the chance of generating an environment that is as conducive as possible to recovery.
Moreover, having a family member who has psychosis is so distressing and demanding that the family is a legitimate focus of attention in and of itself. Simply to tell them that it is unhelpful to 'express negative emotion' is so un-empathic as to make it counterproductive. There is much more to understanding family reaction and providing relevant support than this, and this forms the aim of the course.
Who should attend:
Anybody who works with psychosis, whether currently working with their families or not.
Agenda and learning objectivities:
- Individual reactions to psychosis. Most people find extreme difficulty in imagining what it must be like to be diagnosed as having schizophrenia. ‘Informed empathy’ can help our imagination - and that of the family.
- Families’ reactions to psychosis. From prodrome phase to the long-term recovery phase, families go through fluctuations and stages. And we need to understand those stages in order to support the family.
- Why Involve families? There are two very good reasons to do so, and we examine them both.
- Assessment for Family Intervention. A comprehensive and detailed assessment of the individual and the collective needs of the family members is essential to successful intervention with the family.
- Engagement. So we have our family interview all completed and we know what we should be providing, but nothing we know is of any use unless we can engage with the family in such a way that they will take notice of what we have to offer.
- Cultural Factors. Recognizing the significance of cultural factors is crucial when working with the families because they are so important in shaping beliefs, attitudes, and help-seeking behaviors.
- Frequently Asked Questions. Much of what we do is to help the family provide the optimum conditions to nurture the patient, but when anyone receives a diagnosis of schizophrenia the family naturally have a lot of questions they want answers to. And we should do our best to answer them as helpfully and accurately as possible.
- The FAQs and suggested answers. In this section we look at some of the most frequent FAQs and the basis of answers to them.
- The causes of schizophrenia. We go into more depth on this question because it is of such interest to families for 3 important reasons.
- What can we do about it? This is a very constructive question, and we have equally constructive answers for it.
- Family communication. Tackling family criticism and hostility (to the client), problem solving, and how to set limits in the home.
- Expressed Emotion and Family Interventions. Although the research tells us that high expression of negative emotion is unhelpful for the patient, simply telling the family that this is the case may also be unhelpful. So we look at the best ways of approaching it.
- Relapse prevention. Relapse is a major concern and is best as a proactive approach, and it depends on a close collaboration between patient, family and us.
What the course will do for you:
- You will gain insight into the effect that psychosis has on a family.
- You will have a strong sense of what are helpful interventions with families … and what are unhelpful.
- You will be able to engage better with families and respond better to any hostility and criticism.
- Above all, you will be able to make helpful interventions with families and to help them make helpful interactions with their relative who has been diagnosed with psychosis.
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...Booking Options... for individuals or small groups For teams and organizations:
We bring the course and tutor to you, for an all-inclusive fee. Price (3-day version): $12,400 (plus tutor travel and accommodation expenses) for a group of up to 15 people. Extra delegates: $810 per person. Price (2-day version): $9,085 (plus tutor travel and accommodation expenses) for a group of up to 15 people. Extra delegates: $540 per person. Option 2: Online Live and Exclusive course: Live and interactive online course, delivered via Zoom or Teams* exclusively for your team or organization. Price (3-day version): $7,760* 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 $510 per person. Price (2-day version): $5,600* 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 $340 per person. *We standardly deliver courses via Zoom (which is recommended). If you would prefer to use Microsoft Teams, there is an additional charge of $160 CAD per day. 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 face-to-face fee, regardless of whether the course is held online or face-to-face). 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: 98%
Relevance: 98%
Online Live*
Presentation: 92%
Relevance: 98%
*This online live ratings are taken from the last two 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 'Family Interventions in Psychosis' course has received.
"Every professional going to visit a family should attend this course to realize the full potential benefits to the client that good family interventions can have."
"This is a new course which needed to be taught a long time ago. Excellent content and will benefit all mental health professionals."
