The order, in which delegates attend the courses, is flexible.
Delegates who attend one or more days will be awarded with a Certificate of Attendance (on the day).
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 30 CPD hours.
The structure of the 5 days is as follows:
An introduction to the three modalities – similarities and differences between Positive Psychology, Solution Focused Brief Therapy & Motivational interviewing.
The limitations of pathology-based therapies.
Motivational Interviewing & Beyond (Module 1)
A two day training course designed to empower you to motivate your clients and patients. You’ll be taken through a range of issues, strategies and tips designed to improve your motivational strategies whatever your client group –from treatment non-compliance through offending behaviour to working with those with severe mental health problems. This evidence-based seminar will address the following issues:
Practical ideas developed from Motivational Interviewing (M.I.), environmental psychology and learning theory
Effective evidence-based strategies for all practitioners - whether working in long term therapeutic relationships or with brief 5 minute contacts
Learn to motivate clients who do not want to talk to you or even be in the same room as you!
Learn how doing LESS can motivate your clients MORE
Discover the research on how what your client SAYS increases what they DO afterwards… and how to get them to say it!
Prevent and manage resistance more effectively
Learn how to make goal setting work and feedback more effective as motivating factors
How do we currently try to motivate clients
Outline of common styles
Strengths and limitations of such styles
Discussion
Arousal & Motivation
Yerkes-Dodson & the 21st century
Why are ‘low energy’ clients unmotivated and what can be done about it?
Force-Field Analysis: A powerful tool for assessing & increasing motivation
Stages of change model & implications for motivational strategies
The MI process of Engage, Focusing, Evoking & Planning
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
The use of OARS (Open Questions, Affirmations, Reflections & Summary)
Working with uncertain or ambivalent clients
Key principles and attitudes on information giving and handling resistance
The role of change statements and how to elicit them
Working with clients with variable motivation. Video illustration
Goal setting & Feedback For Increasing Motivation
Powerful tools for good and bad
Making goal setting more effective
Increasing the effectiveness of feedback
Understanding Maintenance of Change and ensuring that your work with clients is not simply a pattern of repeated change followed by repeated relapse
The role of practice, routines and rituals
Social support as a key success factor
Handling relapse
Solution Focused Brief Therapy – SFT (Module 2)
Introduction to Solution Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT): 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 SFT 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.
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”.
The idea of “faking” new responses.
Paradoxical interventions & their use with clients.
The use of 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 Solution Focused 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.
The use of the prediction task.
Positive Psychotherapy: Supercharge Your Practice (Module 3)
The history and evidence base of positive psychology and its practical application.
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: VIA "Signature Strengths" and how they might be identified and used in therapy. Developing gratitude and its impact on motivation and mood.
The development of Optimism in pessimistic clients
Environmental interventions and their impact on pro-social behaviour and positive mood. Practical implications and uses.
This course is available for in-house training.
For further details on in-house training visit: http://www.sdsinhouse.co.uk
Course Price:
Regular Price: £540 + VAT (£648) per delegate to include refreshments and course materials.
Certificate of Attendance:
You receive a Certificate of Attendance for 7 CPD training hours on each course (14 Hours for 2-day course).
Certificate of Completion:
You can obtain a Certificate of Completion for 35 CPD training hours as soon as you provide us copies of your attendance certificates and complete the online test (please email us for further details).
Click on the preferred option to enrol in the full course. Booking Conditions
Latest updates
CBT for Child & Adolescent Disorders.
26 February 2019, London or via WEBCAST— Click Here to book now.
Advanced Supervision Skills.
27 February 2019, London — or VIA WEBCAST. Click Here to book now.
Essential Supervision Skills.
5-6 March 2019, Birmingham — Won't be repeated in Birmingham in 2019. Click Here to book now.
CBT: Introductory Course.
12-14 March 2019, London — or via WEBCAST. Click Here to book WEBCAST.
Working with Deliberate Self Harm.
19 March 2019, London or via WEBCAST— Click Here to book now.
Course Leader:
Prof. Paul Grantham Consultant Clinical Psychologist
Paul Grantham is a clinical psychologist with vast clinical and training experience. With degrees from Oxford University and the University of Sussex, Paul trained as a Clinical Psychologist at Liverpool University. Paul is the founder and Director of SDS Ltd and one of the most popular and inspirational tutors in the field of psychological skills training. Paul is the founder of the DBT Special Interest Group of the BABCP, a Chartered Clinical Psychologist, a Senior 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.
Delegates' Feedback
Thank you for the great courses in resource-based therapies this year. The subject matter was very relevant to my life and work, while the opportunity to attend the seminars online was an added bonus, given my distance from London and commitments at home.
As suggested in the positive therapy course, I went away and tried doing something different. I have a great interest in coaching, so I booked myself some personal coaching with a TA therapist and went along with some ideas and challenges, but no burning questions or "problems" to focus on. Over the course of six weeks I came up with some interesting personal priorities, a greater sense of autonomy and boundaries to help me deliver on them, and a personal action plan for the next year with timescales attached. I had no idea I was going to do this but it was brilliant! I'm happy to say that my plan includes the SDS course in compassion-focused therapy [link to the course], so I will be back for another webinar in 2017.
The other, completely unexpected bonus was your final offering on the importance of savannahs and green spaces. Having lived in Africa in the past, and still loving English parkland, this made perfect sense to me intuitively, even though I love and live by the coast. So when a friend moved away to the midlands and missed the sea, I passed on your evidence to her and told her to go find herself a savannah! She soon found herself a large leafy park with a lake in, and is now very happy pursuing a personal mission to save the water-birds there from malnutrition and deformities, by ensuring they get some appropriate food and not just the bread usually thrown to them. So the word has spread already and will doubtless continue. Out of such little acorns do mighty oaks - or acacias?! - grow. These are just two examples of the positive results of the course and I am so glad that I took it. Thank you once again and please pass on my thanks and best wishes to all the team.
Carolyn Angwin-Thomson
Mental Health Worker at Devon County Council &
Devon Partnership NHS Trust