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APT Training
Integrated, evidence-based mental health training
of the highest quality.
If you are looking for the best training in mental health then we believe you have found it. Since we were founded in 1981, over 90,000 mental health professionals have attended APT course. APT tutors form a resource probably unequalled in the UK, and APT has a deserved reputation for being the 'gold standard' (or the benchmark) in mental health training and related areas.
Delegates on APT mental health training courses typically comprise: psychiatric nurses, social workers, occupational therapists, clinical psychologists, psychiatrists, probation officers and others working in a variety of settings including: Adult Mental Health, Children and Adolescents, Older People, Learning Disability, Brain Injury, Forensic and Substance Misuse.

The APT shop
In a radical new development we are aiming to provide the top quality content APT has provided over 90,000 mental health professionals, for you to commend direct to patients. There are three new products, each covering broadly similar content, and each demonstrating remarkable value for money for your patients.
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APT
1-3 Saxby Street
Leicester LE2 0ND
Tel:
0116 2555 963
Fax:
0116 2555 957
Email:
office@apt.ac
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The majority of training we provide is done this way - we come to you and train a group of up to 16 people.
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Pioneered in recent years, APT provides high impact professional development in
1-day events direct to your own organisation.
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An opportunity to obtain APT-quality input and develop your professional knowledge at a time that is convenient to you.
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| Featured Courses |
APT's School for Tutors
APT tutors have a reputation second to none, and APT’s School for Tutors is the course that teaches the standard.
Repairing the Damage™ NEW
For whole teams working with young people who have been through experiences which are by any standards ‘damaging’.
The RAID® Course for Working with Challenging Behaviour
A relentlessly positive approach to working with extreme behaviour to tackle it at source. Already attended by over 12,000 UK professionals.
The DICES® Risk Assessment and Management System
A cogent system that actually facilitates clinical work, this is one of our most renowned courses. Over 5,500 UK professionals have already attended this course.
DBT Essentials™
Instruction in the key components of DBT for those who want to add them to their repertoire without necessarily becoming 'a DBT therapist'.
There Must Be A Better Way™
Stopping self harm and replacing it with something better. Quite different from attempted suicide, over 24,000 people are admitted to hospital in UK every year, having deliberately harmed themselves.
The Professional Management of Suicide Risk and Suicidality™ - 3 days
For the professional, 'suicide prevention' is a question of risk assessment and management. For the client, it's a question of building a life that is worth living. This course shows you the complete package: how to assess and manage risk, but mainly how to help the person build a life worth living.
CBT: Key Knowledge and Skills - 3 days
The Be-BEST™ System for reliably providing high quality CBT, this course covers modern 5-factor CBT, and provides the foundation for good CBT based interventions in a proper understandable way.
The ADDRESS™ Course for Working with Personality Disorder
- 3 days
Personality Disorder is sometimes regarded as one of the more intractable problems in the mental health world. The ADDRESS™ Course takes an opposing view, arguing that it is one of the most fascinating, and providing a systematic approach to working with it.
Key Knowledge and Skills for Working with Psychosis - 3 days
Formerly CBT with Psychosis Module One, this covers crucially effective concepts and interventions for use in everyday interactions with people prone to psychotic episodes.
Aggressive-Behaviour Control: The ABC Course™ - 1 day or 2 days
Powerful non-physical techniques for handling aggression and violence effectively.
Brief, Solution Focused Therapy - 3 days
BSFT provides an approach to problems that is fundamentally positive and usually comes as a breath of fresh air to professionals and clients alike.
Motivational Interviewing and The Stages of Change™ - 3 days
Combining Miller and Rollnick's Motivational Interviewing with Prochaska and DiClemente's Stages of Change, this course describes a powerful system for having people acknowledge and do something about their problems.
The APT Diploma in CBT
A course we bring to your organisation for up to 12 people to attend, providing 200 hours of focused training, examinations of the knowledge gained, and projects associated with each of the specialised modules. The design of the course is intended to help delegates in their application for BABCP accreditation if they wish to pursue this and automatically gains you APT Level 3 accreditation in each of the subjects you pass. Above all it is designed to make you a more knowledgeable and effective clinician.
Realising Recovery™ - 3 days
The Recovery philosophy comes originally from service users, and professionals do right to try to understand and incorporate it, so this course is about Realising Recovery in terms of just what the philosophy implies, and also 'realising' it in terms of making it come true for service users.
Overcoming Anger and Irritability - 3 days
Written by William Davies, the author of the book of the same name and the only anger management book on the Books on Prescription Core List, this is a top anger management course.
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