The order, in which delegates attend the courses, is flexible.
Delegates who attend one or more days will be awarded at the end with a Certificate of Attendance.
As an additional option delegates can take an assessment (comprising of additional reading and an online test) – successful completion of which will result in obtaining a Certificate of Assessed Academic Competence with 10 CPD hours attached to each day.
To book the whole course of 4 days and save a minimum of £190 comparing to individual days bookings (regular price for 4 courses is £560+VAT) please book online or print out the printable PDF booking form and post it to us with your payment or fax to 0870 199 1838 with your purchase order or a letter of authorisation.
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An introduction to the three modalities – similarities and differences between Positive Psychology, Brief Solution focused Therapy & Motivational interviewing.
The history and evidence base of positive psychology and its practical application.
The limitations of pathology-based therapies.
Enhancing "client wellbeing" "Teaching happiness" and its use with a range of client groups from children to offenders. The relationship between well-being and the reduction in "problematic behaviour".
Identifying and enhancing client strengths: "Signature Strengths" and how they might be identified and used in therapy. The relationship with strengths and problematic behaviour.
Environmental interventions and their impact on pro-social behaviour and positive mood. Practical implications and uses.
The development of resilience and perseverance.
Developing gratitude and forgiveness : its impact on motivation and mood.
Motivational Interviewing & Beyond (Module 2)
Common styles of motivating clients; strengths and limitations of such styles.
Arousal & Motivation: Yerkes-Dodson & the 21st century. Why are ‘low energy’ clients unmotivated and what can be done about it? Force-Field Analysis: Assessing & increasing motivation.
Stages of change model & implications for motivational strategies. Pre-Contemplators: The forgotten client group. Why do we have totally unmotivated clients. General principles for motivating "unmotivated clients“.
"Depressed", "Inactive" & "Low Energy" clients. "Rebellious", "Compulsory Attendance" clients..... or ones who simply hate you. Working with uncertain or ambivalent clients.
Key principles and attitudes on information giving and handling resistance. The role of motivational statements and how to elicit them. Working with clients with variable motivation.
Goal Setting & Feedback For Increasing Motivation: Powerful tools for good and bad. Making goal setting more effective. Increasing the effectiveness of feedback.
Brief Solution Focused Therapy – BSFT (Module 3)
Introduction to Brief Solution Focused Therapy (BSFT): Evidence base and applicability to different client and staff groups.
Understanding the trap of the CLEPPER approach in traditional models of helping. Key underlying principles of BSFT and its implications for practice. How brief is brief? Single five minute meetings through to longer term work.
Initial Engagement: Laying the groundwork for change. Rapport building (with a difference!). Changing your own and your clients’ attitudes to problems through language change.
Creating “psychological distance” between the client and their problems whilst increasing a sense of “personal agency”. Helping the client let go of unhelpful attitudes towards their problems. “Doing the problem”. Creating a sense of hope and “possibility” and “goal direction” for stuck clients. Moving out of stuck behaviour and repetitive negative cycles.
Techniques to help clients re-evaluate and change old negative patterns. The role of “experimental behaviour” and how to use it with clients. Techniques for “going against the flow”. Addressing negative cognitions fro a Brief Solution perspective.
Focusing on solutions. Helping clients to discover their own internal resources for problem resolution. ”Why aren’t things worse” ”Doing the solution optimally”, “Competency transfer”.
Drawing on the client’s external resources with an exercise using real and “distance” role models. The idea of “faking” new responses.
Paradoxical interventions & their use with clients.
BSFT with Difficult & Complex Clients (Module 4)
Adaptions and alternatives to the Miracle Question.
Working with unhealthy or `unrealistic client goals – an issue revisited. Strategies for enhancing and adapting the “Miracle Question”. Techniques for working with a “preferred futures” with specialist client groups including those with ASD, cognitive impairment and those with serious mental health problems
A Brief Solution approach to “involuntary and unmotivated clients”. Brief solution techniques for motivating clients who hate you and don’t want to work with you.
Turning poor motivation into client led optimism and solutions. How to view resistance as co-operation
Circular questioning. Mutualising. The use of the prediction task.
Paul Grantham B.A. (Oxon), M.Sc, M.Clin.Psychol., BABCP (Accred)
Paul Grantham is a clinical psychologist with vast clinical and training experience. Having originally taken a degree in history at Oxford University, Paul chose to make Psychology his professional career and took an MSc degree in Psychology at Sussex University followed by training as a Clinical Psychologist at Liverpool University. He has worked extensively within the NHS for many years as a clinical psychologist including primary care, mental health, forensic, substance misuse and physical health and has trained staff in health care, social services, local government and education around the UK and abroad. Paul has a particular interest in people motivation for change, resistance and reasons of why people do NOT change and currently focuses on practical applications of resource based therapies. He has presented and written on a range of psychological issues with particular emphasis on working with clients’ inner resources for overcoming problems.
Paul is registered with the HPC, an Associate of The Royal Society of Medicine and is an Accredited CBT Therapist. An extremely informed, clinically experienced and humorous speaker he is known for his emphasis on the practicalities rather than just the theory of client-based work.
Paul is a founder and Director of The Skills Development Service Ltd and one of the most popular and inspirational tutors in the field of psychological skills training.
NEW!Socratic Questioning Workshop in
Manchester (June 2012)
For the first time we are bringing this highly demanded course to Manchester.
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Socratic Questioning Workshop.
July London — Returned by popular demand.
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Positive Therapy.
June London —
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Motivational Interviewing & Beyond.
June London —
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CBT: Introductory Course (3 days) - Certificate Course.
June London —
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NEW!Working with Health Anxieties.
June London —
New course delivered by Julia Waller. Click Here to book on June course.
NEW!Behavioural Experiments.
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CBT: Introductory Course (3 days) - Certificate Course.
July Glasgow —
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