Psychologically Informed Environments (PIE).

Psychologically Informed Environments training (half-day) 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 Psychologically Informed Environments (PIE) 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

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Course overview:

‘Psychologically Informed Environments’ is a term that is mostly used in the context of working with marginalized people, such as the homeless. There are several key ideas:

The use of therapeutic techniques aimed at producing emotional recovery, and not just applying sticking plaster to help the immediate problem.
To examine how organizations can be redesigned to help achieve the same aim of emotional recovery and achieve lasting benefit.
To balance past present and future by:

Grounding the client in the present.
Addressing any relevant traumas from the past.
Planning a realistic and attractive future.

Highlighting self-awareness this half-day course aims to examine some of the problems arising from past interventions and looks at current practices which can achieve the aims of PIE, namely emotional recovery.

Further reading: Psychologically Informed Environments: Therapeutic Regeneration by Dean Whittington.

What you receive as a result of attending the training:

Each delegate will be registered as having attended the course and receive a certificate of completion.

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for teams and organizations

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: $1,900* for a group of up to 15 people (price includes a PDF workbook for every delegate). Extra delegates $170 per person.

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Option 2: '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).

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For individuals or small groups:

This course is currently only available for teams/organizations. Please register your interest below if you want to attend this course as an individual and we will notify you when it becomes available.

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As a bona fide APT event, this course automatically has accreditation from The Association for Psychological Therapies. This means (i) that it contains the right amount of relevant information for its duration, and (ii) the information is presented in an engaging way, and in a way that will make it likely to be used after the course. APT verifies the accreditation by publishing the delegates' average ratings of relevance and presentation-quality for all its accredited courses. The accreditation is given value by over 150,000 professionals having attended APT courses.