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Handling the Stress Following Major Incidents

           
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Cognitive Approaches to Working with Offenders
 
A clear framework in which to analyse and work with most offenders.
 
A cognitive approach to working with offenders gives a clear framework in which to analyse and work with most offenders. It is an approach that is increasingly being recognised as giving very good results when well delivered.
 
An underlying principle is that the offenders' behaviour (like that of everyone) depends largely upon a certain amount of thought processes and certain other behaviours. If we can change those thought processes and behaviours we can usually also change the offending.
 
This course aims to provide those working with offenders with sufficient knowledge of a cognitive approach to enable them to apply it safely to their caseload.

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A 3-day course (1-day version also available, see Targeted Training Days for more information). We bring the training to your own organisation and train a group of 6-16
people for a fixed, all-inclusive fee no matter where you are.

 


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Motivational Interviewing
 
The powerful system for having people acknowledge and do something
about their problems.

 
One of APT’s ‘big courses’ this course
aims to introduce you to Miller and Rollnick’s
Motivational Interviewing and Prochaska and DiClemente’s Stages of Change in a
systematic way that you can easily apply. One of our most popular courses, it shows
how to motivate the unmotivated, give everyone a chance to reflect on their situation and
how they want to progress, and help them to achieve and maintain exactly that.

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A 3-day course (1-day version also available, see Targeted Training Days for more information). We bring the training to your own organisation and train a group of 6-16
people for a fixed, all-inclusive fee no matter where you are.

 


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The ADDRESS™ Course for
Working with Personality Disorder

 
A powerful integrated package for working effectively with Personality Disorder.
 
This course combines relevant aspects of Cognitive Therapy, Dialectical Behaviour Therapy and Motivational Interviewing to form a powerful and systematic intervention for personality disorder. It highlights the problem behaviours associated with personality disorder, how to conceptualise those behaviours in specific cases, how to facilitate insight and motivation in the patient, and how to generate change strategies. Importantly it also gives participants a chance to practise applying them to prepared scenarios.

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A 3-day course (1-day version also available, see Targeted Training Days for more information). We bring the training to your own organisation and train a group of 6-16
people for a fixed, all-inclusive fee no matter where you are.

 



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Preventing Face-to-Face Violence

 
Powerful non-physical techniques for handling aggression and violence
effectively.

 
 
First run in 1983 and constantly developed since then, this course is the ‘original’ of
courses on the non-physical management of aggression. Attended so far by about 100,000 participants it covers how and why anger and aggression develop, how to prevent aggressive and violent incidents (both to oneself and others), key techniques for responding to an actively aggressive or violent person, and what to do after an incident has been resolved. Everything you need to know about non-physical responses to anger, aggression and violence.

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A 2-day course (1-day version also available, see Targeted Training Days for more information). We bring the training to your own organisation and train a group of 6-16
people for a fixed, all-inclusive fee no matter where you are.



 
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Handling the Stress Following Major Incidents
 
It is difficult to know what to do after a major incident, but ‘nothing’ is rarely
the best option.

 
Major incidents such as patient-suicide, assaults, severe self harm, hostage takings etc
can be very stressful for the staff concerned. Through lecture, case study and role play, this course examines how best to respond to such situations to minimise the stress; when it’s best to say little or nothing, when to get a group of staff together, what to say, what procedures to follow, etc. It provides very clear guidelines in an often confused and difficult area.

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A 3-day course (1-day version also available, see Targeted Training Days for more information). We bring the training to your own organisation and train a group of 6-16
people for a fixed, all-inclusive fee no matter where you are.




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"The course has probably been one of the most useful I have been on. I enjoyed all of the sessions and will undoubtedly be able to put all of what we covered into practice. Thank you for all your efforts, it is much appreciated."

Course Delegate, Cognitive Approaches to Working with Offenders


"A well presented, relevant course. One of the most productive 3 days I have spent in 12 years of working in mental health services."

Course Delegate, Motivational Interviewing and The Stages of Change


"Waited for years for a course like this. Thank you."

Course Delegate, The ADDRESS Course for Working with Personality Disorder


"An excellent course, well presented and very relevant to my work. I would highly recommend this course to others."

Course Delegate, Preventing
Face-to-Face Violence



"I have found the course very beneficial to all aspects of my work. The presentation was excellent. I have taken away lots of relevant things that I definitely will be trying to use in my workplace."

Course Delegate, Handling the Stress Following Major Incidents





























































   
 
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