CBT Plus, for Lifestyle Issues affecting 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.
It is the only such 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 whole teams/organizations and can be attended face-to-face or online. It can also be completed as part of 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.
Attend the course as an individual, or we can bring the 3-day course to your own organization and train a group of 6-15 people, or you or your colleagues may be able to be trained to roll out the course in your organization under license.
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'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.
APT-accreditation is probably the most valid and transparent accreditation system currently available to professionals in mental health and related fields. See APT accreditation 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: $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.
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 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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