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The APT Diploma for working in Secure Psychiatric and Forensic Settings.

The APT Diploma for Working in Secure Psychiatric and Forensic Settings provides 90 hours of focused training and is 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.

It is the only Secure Psychiatric and Forensic Settings Diploma that is APT-accredited and also gives you access to APT’s relevant downloadable resources for use post-course. The course is available for teams/organisations and can be attended face-to-face or online.

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Executive Summary:

The APT Diploma for Working in Secure Psychiatric and Forensic Settings provides 90 hours of training, leading to Level 4 APT accreditation. We bring the training to you for a fixed fee, to ensure you get a supportive group addressing the same material.

The diploma comprises 15 days of training made up by attending/choosing five of the twelve courses below. Your team/organisation chooses the five courses and you then all attend the same five courses:

• Motivational Interviewing, and how to use it effectively
• The RAID^® Course for working with Challenging Behavior
• DBT Essentials
• Running DBT Skills-Development Groups
• CBT for Working with Offenders
• SFT Essentials (Solution Focused Therapy)
• Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT)
• The DICES^® Risk Assessment and Management System
• CBT Plus, with Suicidality
• Helping People Manage their Anger and Violence
• The ADDRESS^® Course for working Personality Disorder
• Realising Recovery and Social Inclusion

To be awarded the diploma, students must also complete an online exam after each course.

If you have already attended one or more of these courses in the last 2 years, then you have an exemption for that subject(s), you don't need to attend the same course again. If you have already attended the equivalent of one or more of these courses from another training-provider in the last 2 years, then again you have an exemption for that subject(s), although you do need to submit evidence of the training and pay a reading fee for APT assessing it. 

Please note that the diploma should be completed in not more than 2 years from the date you undertake the first course. 

The Diploma can also be awarded by completing the individual courses separately, across 2 years
 

What you receive as a result of attending the training:

You will be registered as having attended the course, thereby gaining APT's Diploma for Working in Secure Psychiatric and Forensic Settings, and receive a certificate to this effect and Level 4 accreditation which gains you access to the resources associated with the course.

Your registration lasts indefinitely, and your accreditation to use the resources lasts for 3 years and is renewable by attending a Masterclass top-up day or submitting evidence of continued practice, and your reflections on that practice (to the required level).

Your accreditation is given value by the fact of over 125,000 people having attended APT training. See APT accreditation for full details.

Booking this training is easy... Booking Options...  for teams and organisations  for individuals or small groups For teams and organisations: Option 1: Online Live and Exclusive course: Live, interactive online course exclusively for your team or organisation. Price: £21,525 plus VAT for a group of up to 15 people (workbooks for every delegate are included in this price - if you require workbooks being sent to more than one location, there is an extra charge of £10 per extra address, per course). Extra delegates £1,425 plus VAT per person. Book Now Top of page Option 2: Face-to-Face Onsite course: We bring the course and tutor to you, for an all-inclusive fee. Price: £29,550 plus VAT for a group of up to 15 people. Extra delegates: £1,950 plus VAT per person. To book, call (UK) 0116 241 8331, or click the button: Book Now Top of page Option 3: 'Train the Trainer': If you or a colleague are a senior professional (e.g. consultant psychologist) and have a talent for communication and teaching, then you are welcome to apply to become an APT-accredited tutor. You could then tutor the course - or your chosen modules from it - in your own organisation, under license. This is not only a highly appropriate use of senior professionals, but it also saves your organisation the tutor-component of the fee (around 50%) each time you run it or your chosen modules. To see the full benefits of this and to see whether you are eligible, click the button: Check eligibility criteria Top of page For individuals or small groups: This course is currently only available for teams/organisations. Please register your interest below if you want to attend this course as an individual and we will notify you when it becomes available. Register Interest Top of page

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As a bona fide APT event, this course automatically has accreditation from The Association for Psychological Therapies. This means (i) that it contains the right amount of relevant information for its duration, and (ii) the information is presented in an engaging way, and in a way that will make it likely to be used after the course. APT verifies the accreditation by publishing the delegates' average ratings of relevance and presentation-quality for all its accredited courses. The accreditation is given value by over 125,000 professionals having attended APT courses.

Written Feedback.

APT prides itself on the feedback we receive about our courses. Below are just some of the great comments the modules for The APT Diploma for working in Secure Psychiatric and Forensic Settings courses have received.

"One of the best presented, organised and thought-out courses I have been on. I speak as a course participant but also as a trainer of 20 years experience."

"Without a doubt the best training course I have ever attended. Thoroughly enjoyable, relevant and helpful for my job role."