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A 3-day course for 6-16 people.
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Background:
The course is for everyone who works with people with psychosis. Its purpose is to teach the best ways of handling routine, fundamental interactions with patients e.g. medication compliance, and how to respond to patients expressing their delusions. Above all, it works to produce insight as to what it is like to suffer from schizophrenia.
The course aims to give participants a better understanding of the nature of delusions and hallucinations, why these symptoms occur as they do and the psychological factors that maintain them. Of central importance is the empathic understanding of what it might be like for people who experience these symptoms.
Specifically, you will be introduced to the cognitive behavioural approach, and the way this can be used when working with people with schizophrenia.
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In 3 days you will cover a great deal:
• What is CBT and, especially, CBT with Psychosis? Including: The importance of beliefs
in our everyday lives; The belief maintenance cycles; Automatic thoughts and their
relevance to hallucinations; The distinction between intuitive feelings and rational
knowledge.
• Discussing delusions and hallucinations within the patient's belief system, suspending
disbelief, affirming, floating ideas, using your curiosity to generate questions.
• Setting the goals for therapy, including deciding whether full or partial modification of
delusions will be more beneficial in each case.
• Using Guided Discovery and Socratic dialogue to enable patients to reach conclusions
that convince them.
• Developing - and expressing - empathy: an essential skill that is difficult, having never experienced psychosis.
• Destigmatising the diagnosis, so that the patient can work constructively on the symptoms that bother them.
• Enhancing patients' coping skills. Including: The use of earplugs and Walkmans;
Practical strategies that do and that do not require insight; Enhancing the use of
strategies already employed; Enhancing the environment; Promoting insight; Lessening
the impact/distress of the delusional ideas; Practical ways of reducing voices.
• Medication compliance strategies. Including: Finding a rationale for medication that
makes sense to
the patient; Enhancing the advantages of taking medication; Relating
well/ill to being on/off medication; modifying paranoid beliefs about the medication
prescribers.
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What this course will do for you:
The course considers the best way of approaching and interacting with patients in order to obtain information for assessment, to build up rapport and to develop a supportive, therapeutic relationship.It also considers specific strategies that can be used to reduce the distress caused by the symptoms, and help patients understand their experience and illness in useful way.
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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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