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CBT for Working with Offenders.
'CBT for Working with Offenders' is a 3-day course from the Association for Psychological Therapies (APT), a leading provider of training for professionals working in mental health and related areas in the UK and Ireland. (2-day version also available.)
It is the only CBT for Offenders training that is Delegate–Accredited and uniquely combines built-in APT Registration with automatic access to our renowned post-course resources to help you support your clients. It is available for both teams and individuals, face-to-face or online, and can also be completed as part of (a) Extended Training in CBT or (b) The APT Diploma for working in Secure Psychiatric and Forensic Settings.
Executive Summary:
CBT for 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.
The course covers:
The definition and nature of a cognitive approach. The history of the approach and how this helps us today. What cognitive means, and why this is important. Dysfunctional thinking. The cognitive model, the importance of well developed clinical skills and how these apply.
The core of the cognitive model: the concepts of triggers for offending, and how one can teach people to see them differently. The idea of inhibitions and how they can be activated; the idea of 'mitigating the response' to at least reduce the offending. How to analyse your own clients in these terms.
How early experience can result in dysfunctional attitudes, beliefs and rules, leading to unhelpful perceptions of events. Possible courses of action and the likely outcomes. How to work with such attitudes, beliefs and rules to produce an equally all-persuasive beneficial effect.
The concept of mood and how it influences nearly every stage of the cognitive model. How, therefore, if we can alter the persons mood we can have far reaching effects on their thinking and behaviour. The major determinants of mood, and how to work with them. How producing a more stable mood can be very important when working with violent offenders.
'How to do' a cognitive approach, once you have understood the theory. Why the quality of relationship is so important in the cognitive approach, and how to use it for everyone's benefit. The major dangers of a poorly implemented cognitive approach and, especially, how it can make matters worse rather than better.
Socratic questioning and guided discovery. The AFEAD acronym. Logical errors and 'bald' statements. Why you never challenge a person, only their thinking. How to do that: short term appraisals and long term attitudes, belief and rules.
Positive self-talk and the 'Be your own best friend' technique. Strengths and drawbacks with these.
Specific techniques such as empathy induction: why developing victim empathy is so important. How to do it.
Structuring sessions with individuals. Why it is important to have a standard structure and how to use it.
How to capitalise on the course afterwards.
A cognitive self-test of your learning.
What you receive as a result of attending the training:
You will be registered as having attended the course, thereby gaining APT Registration Level 1, and receive a certificate to this effect. The registration gives you access to online resources associated with the course and access to the online exam if you wish to uprate your APT Registration to Level 2 (note, the exam is inbuilt into the 'online anytime' version of the course).
Your record of attendance lasts indefinitely, whilst your APT Registration Level lasts for 3 years from the date of completion and is renewable.
APT Registration Levels are given value by the fact that over 150,000 people have attended APT training. See APT Registration for full details.
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NICE guidelines relevant to this course:
Mental Health of adults in contact with the criminal justice system (NG66) ❯
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Reviews.
APT prides itself on the feedback we receive about our courses. Below are just some of the great comments the 'CBT for Anxiety, Stress and Worry' course has received.
"A most informative and worthwhile two days. All work covered was relevant to my work with young offenders. The tutor made it an interesting, attention-holding experience.”
"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."
