EARLY INTERVENTION IN PSYCHOSIS

Early intervention training from one of the UK's leading providers of intensive short courses.

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A 3-day course for 6-16 people.
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Background:

Tragically, some people embark on a psychotic - career - of: disturbed adolescence ... psychotic breakdown ... recovery ... relapse. A sequence lasting a lifetime, through repeated disturbed delusional states and ending in a depressed, inactive and un-motivated state.

The aim of early intervention is to nip this sequence in the bud and to harry it at every stage. Wonderfully, the results of such interventions appear to be very promising indeed, at this - albeit early - stage.

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In 3 days you will cover a great deal:

•  Why it matters that early Kraepelinian ideas of schizophrenia are still influential.

•  What is early intervention - the 3 different but connected concepts it covers.

•  Examining some leading EI services - still new but providing templates for others to copy.

•  Why intervene early? The current research, and examples of effective early intervention,    and some examples the reverse.

•  Engaging with - and assessing - clients and their families.

•  Empathising with someone with first episode psychosis: talking within their belief system
   without reaffirming delusional beliefs.

•  Understanding the person's reaction to psychosis: adjustment styles and what they say for
   our response.

•  Suicide: prediction and prevention.

•  Education, normalising and de-stigmatising: Reducing the impact - and coping with the
   trauma - of diagnosis.

•  Relapse prevention: Monitoring for early signs, and implementing the relapse-prevention
   drill.

•  Implication for your own service: establishing or refining your early intervention
   capabilities.

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What the course will do for you:

The aims of this course are simple. Namely: to acquaint you with the concepts and skills that
enable you to implement early intervention strategies; to enable you to review and develop your early intervention service if you have one; to motivate and enable you to develop one if you haven't. The overarching aim is to be able to (a) help vulnerable adolescents so they never become psychotic, (b) intervene intensively with people who have a first psychotic episode so they don't have a second and (c) spot impending relapse and intervene to prevent it. These are what the course strives for.

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Download printable Microsoft Word information Sheet

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A 3-day course for 6-16 people.
We bring the training to you for an all-inclusive fee of £4,165 plus VAT.
 
We are happy to provide our courses anywhere in the world for the standard UK fee plus the cost of one business class return airfare from the UK to the location of the course.

  

Target Training Day also available on this topic – see Targeted Training Days.

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