APT courses that are of key relevance to Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT Training)

These courses can be taken as separate training events, or sequenced to provide
1-day/week over an extended period.

•  FAR-LEVASH: Doing the Basics Well
•  Brief, Solution-Focused Therapy
•  CBT: Key Knowledge and Skills
•  CBT with Eating Disorders
•  CBT with Depression
•  CBT with Stress and Worry
•  CBT with Panic
•  CBT with OCD
•  CBT with Anger and Irritability
•  CBT with Substance Misuse
•  Extended Training in CBT


Additional APT courses of relevance to IAPT

These courses can also be taken as separate IAPT training events, or sequenced to provide1-day/week over an extended period.

•  The DICES® Risk Assessment and Management System
•  The ADDRESSTM Course for Working with Personality Disorder
•  Stopping Self-Harm ... and Replacing it with Something Better
•  The Be-BEST Programme
•  Helping People at Risk of Suicide
•  Motivational Interviewing and the Stages of Change
•  Helping Angry and Violent People to Change
•  Preventing Face-to-Face Violence
•  Working with Substance Misuse


Resources

Protocol based interventions for depression of the highest standards

Imagine if there was APT-quality input that mental health professionals could deliver direct to patients, to teach them all the important information they need to know. And imagine it was all properly monitored. Well ... here it is.

An exciting new way to provide people diagnosed with depression or anxiety with a better input at a lower cost. Thereby providing excellent services to more people more quickly. The idea of treating depressed people in groups is not new. The idea of having a top-brand, evidence-based course that is rolled out through a number of services and has an inbuilt monitoring mechanism, is very new and very exciting.

It means that excellent group-based input can now be provided by any capable professional. So long as they have the qualities to deliver the evidence based input provided to them they will be providing excellent input to people who very much need it.

The following programmes are available:

1.  Protocol-based CBT input for Depression
2.  In the pipeline: protocol-based CBT input for Anxiety

A license entitles the holder to run the programme to their patients as many times as they like for the period they are licensed. High-quality materials to give to patients (workbooks etc) are bought directly and cheaply from APT.

The main features

•  Evidence-based practice in line with NICE guidelines, made as accessible as possible
   for people with (a) depression or (b) anxiety.

• Dramatic impact: you can have large numbers of professionals delivering high
   quality input.

•  Suitable for a range of mental health settings – both inpatient and community.

•  Immaculate pedigree: APT’s reputation is second to none.

•  Can be delivered by any or all of your suitably talented people.

•  Designed to be delivered to groups; can also be delivered to individuals.

•  The input is constantly refined in response to emerging research and feedback from
   course-leaders and users.

•  Monitoring is designed into the programmes.

•  Nationwide roll-out: likely to quickly become a treatment of choice.

How does it work

There is a simple choice of licensing systems. You buy a license either for your Trust / organisation or for specific individuals in your Trust / organisation.

What about course materials for the patients?
You purchase high quality materials directly from APT at a low cost.

How many sessions are there in the course?
There are seven 90-minute sessions, at weekly intervals.

What monitoring is provided?
As we are renowned for, we aim to maintain the highest standards of monitoring, together with evolving the programme in line with feedback and latest research findings.

What about management and clinical responsibility?
Accountability of course remains with you, and clinical supervision should be provided in the usual way.

Who is eligible to run the course?
Any suitably talented professional.


Support

Providing Good Clinical Supervision

An intensive 2-day course for clinical supervisors – both current and future – in mental health and related areas.

Clinical supervision is a key concept that many people are unclear about. Unclear whether ‘supervision’ means that you should be ensuring that the supervisee is ‘doing it right’ or whether you should be providing a sounding board for the supervisee to develop their clinical thinking, or what. And many people are equally unsure about exactly what their professional body has to say about it, and where to find that out.

This course is designed to clear up all of the above. The aim is, therefore, that by the end of the 2 days you will both (a) know about clinical supervision and (b) be good at providing it.


Consultancy

We are also happy to provide consultancy in areas where we have the necessary expertise, namely:

•  We have a pool of highly experienced clinical psychologists who span virtually every
   aspect of mental health and related areas.

•  We also have over 25 years expertise in training, knowing how to sequence topics for
   maximum benefit, how to build knowledge rather than give people a series of competing
   ideas, and generally how to develop people’s expertise in a (cost) effective way.