Exposure Therapy.

We created this course because there are few good psychological interventions for anxiety, phobias, and OCD, but exposure therapy and graded exposure are one such. The problem is that it is such a ‘common sense’ procedure that many people – professionals included – don’t take the care to learn how to use it properly and so it doesn’t work well for them. This leads to disappointment for the client, and a likely exacerbation of the problem. And that’s why we created this short course: to show professionals how to use exposure therapy – and graded exposure in particular - effectively and well.

Executive Summary:

This is a 1-day input designed for mental health professionals. We bring it to you for a fixed fee for which up to 15 people can attend. The course covers how to apply exposure therapy – especially graded exposure – and what conditions it works well for. It also covers the pitfalls to avoid, and the conditions it usually doesn’t work well for. Those who attend the course receive a certificate to verify the fact, and accreditation that allows them access to any resources associated with the course.

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What's covered on the course?

The course covers all you need to be able to use graded exposure effectively, namely:

What is graded exposure effective for?
The principles and theory: why graded exposure works.
The procedure: in everyday terms, graded exposure is ‘gradually getting the client used to whatever it is they are afraid of’. But what does this mean in proper clinical practice: what exactly do you say and do?
The mistakes professionals make when using GE.
The mistakes clients make when using GE.
Case studies.
Measurement and evaluation.
Follow up.

What you receive as a result of attending this course:

You will be registered as having attended the course, thereby gaining APT's Level 1 accreditation, and receive a certificate to this effect. The accreditation gives you access to online resources associated with the course.

Your registration lasts indefinitely, and your accreditation lasts for 3 years and is renewable by sitting an online refresher which also upgrades your accreditation to APT Level 2 if you are successful in the associated online exam.

Your accreditation is given value by the fact of over 100,000 people having attended APT training. See APT accreditation for full details.

How can I access this training?

Option 1: Bring the course to your organisation:

We bring this 1-day course to your own organisation for a fixed, all-inclusive fee of £1,750 plus VAT and up to 15 people can attend.

To book, call (UK) 0116 241 8331, or click the button:

Book this course for us to bring to you

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Option 2: '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:

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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 100,000 professionals having attended APT courses.

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Feedback Ratings.

We continuously monitor the quality of our training by obtaining feedback on the two key scales of relevance and presentation from every course delegate. Below are the average ratings from the last two running of this course.

Average Presentation rating: 100%

Average Relevance rating: 98%

*These statistics were last updated in March 2018

Written Feedback.

APT prides itself on the feedback we receive about our courses. Below are just some of the great comments the Exposure Therapy course has received.

"Will surely enable me to be a better practitioner."

"Brilliant course."

"Very enjoyable session from an expert."