Family Interventions with Dementia.
Family Interventions with Dementia is a 3-day course from the Association for Psychological Therapies (APT), a leading provider of accredited training courses for professionals working in Mental Health and related areas.
It is the only Family Interventions with Dementia 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 and individuals and can be attended face-to-face or online.
Executive Summary:
This course provides professionals with the understanding and skills to support those with dementia and the people around them. It aims to maintain the best possible quality of life for patients by building the knowledge and strategies of families to improve their own well-being and those they are caring for.
This course (a) provides information for understanding the importance of good assessment and diagnosis in helping the family develop a compassionate understanding of the condition, (b) describes the qualities you need to engage with those living with dementia and (c) gives you practice in skills and interventions you can teach to carers.
Who should attend:
People who attend this course normally fall into one of two categories:
1. Professionals who spend a significant amount of their time working with people who have dementia, and their families.
2. Professionals who, while dementia may not be their primary speciality, nevertheless need to get 'up to speed' on the subject.
The professional affiliations of people suitable to attend this course include: mental health/psychiatric nurses, social workers, occupational therapists, clinical psychologists, psychiatrists, and others.
The course covers:
- The foundation knowledge of dementia especially in regard to family intervention, including: Definition and description, Statistics and Epidemiology, types of common dementias, Diagnosis of Dementia, Progression of Dementia, general management of Dementia, drugs for Alzheimer’s Disease.
- Caring for the family. Understanding the effect on the family, and helping the family. If the family copes better then it’s better for everybody. Skills include engagement, required professional qualities, assessing the most helpful Intervention, Validation Plus, Family communication, Practical Support, Education, Sexual difficulties, coping with unusual behaviour.
- Helping the family care directly for the patient. Finding ways to help the family cope with their loved one’s memory problems so that people can retain their confidence, dignity and independence for as long as possible. Including understanding the memory loss in dementia, structuring family sessions, problem solving, planning activities, responding to questions and behavior and learning lessons from DBT.
- Evaluating the interventions.
What this course will do for you:
- You will develop your response to those with dementia and their families and think about the impact this work may have on yourself.
- You will build your skills of engaging the family, develop your professional qualities and approach and practise techniques – such as validation, assessing the most helpful intervention, practical support and problem solving.
- You will feel competent to perform the family interview and develop standard session plans based on the family’s needs.
- You will be able to start tackling family communication difficulties such as criticism and hostility.
- You will understand unusual behaviours displayed by those with dementia and help families to infer the real meaning from behaviours, so they can then plan helpful interventions or activities.
- You will feel more confident in managing dilemmas faced by the family and supporting them in processing what is happening.
- Above all you will feel more skilled and confident in working with the families of those who have dementia.
What you receive as a result of attending the training:
You will be registered as having attended one, two or three days of the course, thereby gaining APT's Level 1 accreditation in the subject(s) in question, and receive a certificate to this effect. The accreditation gives you access to online resources associated with the course.
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: $12,400 (plus tutor travel and accommodation expenses) for a group of up to 15 people. Extra delegates: $810 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: $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. *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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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 two runnings of this course, which are updated periodically.
Face-to-Face
Presentation: 94%
Relevance: 92%
Online Live
Presentation: 97%
Relevance: 97%
Reviews.
APT prides itself on the feedback we receive about our courses. Below are just some of the great comments APT's Older People courses have received.
"Hooray, the best presented, organized, stress free course I have ever attended since working within mental health nursing. All sessions were relevant to my area of nursing. I hope to be attending future courses with APT."
"I would recommend this course to anybody working with older people, be they nurses, occupational therapists, doctors, family members and carers."
