Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (TF-CBT), for Children and Adolescents.

Trauma-Focused CBT training from the Association for Psychological Therapies, a leading provider of training for professionals working in mental health and related areas throughout the UK and Ireland. We bring this APT-accredited course (3-days) to your own organisation, for maximum cost-effectiveness, and up to 15 people can attend.

Executive Summary:

TF-CBT includes a range of interventions, including Psychoeducation, Parenting skills, Relaxation, Developing a helpful narrative of the traumatic event, Conjoint parent-child sessions, and Enhancing safety and future development.

Its overall aim is to apply relevant CBT techniques to help the young person while maintaining a therapeutic relationship with the parents as well. It typically covers a dozen or so sessions. It is not normally used where the young person's trauma has been caused by the parents.

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The aims of the course:

This course aims at addressing the needs of children and adolescents with PTSD and other difficulties related to traumatic life events. Research suggests that TF-CBT is effective in helping children who have experienced traumatic events.

What this course will do for you:

You will know about PTSD: the symptoms, how it affects people, the theory underlying it, and the models proposed to explain and remedy it.
You will become familiar with the techniques for addressing the symptoms of PTSD and how to ameliorate them.
You will know what to do for those people who are resistant to treatments that are aimed at restoring them to their pre-trauma state.

The course covers:

What is Post Traumatic Stress Disorder? PTSD is a very specific condition, defined most clearly by the DSM.
The influence of different parts of the brain, and their interaction with one another.
How previous core beliefs may be erased and new less helpful ones established, and the effect this has.
Assessment and the first session or two.
Normalisation. Boosting feelings of self-efficacy. The tools we use for normalisation: micro-validation and psycho-education.
Psychoeducation and adjustments to parenting skills.
Relaxtion methods suitable for young people.
Problem Solving. Those who have been through trauma often have new problems to resolve.
The regulation of emotion, and its appropriate expression.
Cognitive coping methods.
The development of a helpful narrative of the traumatic event(s).
Graded exposure if necessary.
Running parent-child sessions.
Enhancing safety and future development.
Case studies and interactive presentations.
Measurement of progress, using subjective and objective methods.

What you receive as a result of attending the training:

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 3-day course to your own organisation for a fixed, all-inclusive fee of £4,495 plus VAT and up to 15 people can attend.

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

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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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Written Feedback.

APT prides itself on the feedback we receive about our courses. Below are just some of the great comments our Child and Adolescent courses have received.

"Without a doubt the most informative, relevant and enjoyable training I have attended to date.”

"I can honestly say as a Manager who has worked in Residential Care for 8 years that this was one of the most beneficial courses that I have been on. It was very well executed and the information was clear, well explained, interesting and beneficial … There has been relevant learning that I can take back to my team that will benefit our work practice in the future."