Drugs and Alcohol Courses

Addiction, Dependence & Recovery (1 Day):  This course provides:

-drug awareness including legal highs

-understanding addiction and physical dependence

-how to support the change process

-how to promote recovery

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Relapse Prevention & Recovery  (1 or 2 Day): This course provides:

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-defines the three critical stages of recovery

-provides a wide range of coping strategies in early recovery

-tools to assess the clients risk profile

-develop self-belief to overcome risk situations

-how to build a recovery environment

-provides relapse management interventions

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Controlled Drinking Skills  (1 or 2 Day): This course provides:

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-how to assess for suitabililty for controlled drinking

-set daily and special occasion drinking goals

-provide a range of moderation skills

-identify and respond to typical over-drinking situations

-identify and respond to complex over-drinking situations

-monitor progress and review viability of controlled drinking goals

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Housing Courses

Psychologically Informed Environments (PIE) (1 or 2 Day): This course provides:

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-what is PIE?

-understanding the 5 core principles of PIE approach

-applying elastic tolerance

-assessing current services against PIE philosophy

-agreeing and developing PIE strategies

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Young People and Families

Working with Young People with Complex Needs  (1 or 2 Day): This course provides:

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-understanding adolescent development

-major mental health disorders for young people

-how adolescent problems cluster

-evolution of complexity in young people

-screening for complexity in young people

-providing a range of intervention for young people with complex needs

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Understand and Responding to Adolescent Neglect (1 or 2 Day):  This course provides:

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-understanding adolescent development

-factors associated with adolescent neglect

-how the four sources of neglect impact on development

-identifying and mediate at risk youth

-identifying serious neglect

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Working with Young People & Substance Abuse  (1 or 2 Day): This course provides:

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-understanding adolescent development

-evolution of young peoples substance use

-how adolescent substance differs from adults

-evolution of complexity in young people

-screening for substance abuse issues in young people in young people

-providing a range of interventions for young substance users

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Working with Concerned Others  (1 or 2 Day): This course provides:

-how to assess concerned others needs

-how families and friends can motivate unmotivated drug and alcohol users into treatment

-provide a range of strategies to facilitate treatment entry

-reduce their own stresses

-improve their quality of life

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Mental Health

Dual Diagnosis (1 or 2 Day): This course provides:

-understanding how substance use and mental health interact

-major mental health and personality disorders

-mental health problems caused by substance use

-how to build and sustain alliances with dual diagnosis clients

-addressing immunity to change

-key symptom management strategies

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Introduction to Mental Health (1 or 2 Day): This course provides:

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-major mental health disorders

-understanding personality disorders

-understanding diagnosis

-neuroscience of mental health disorders

-practical treatment interventions for a variety of disorders

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Personality Disorder (1 or 2 Day): This course provides:

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-understanding personality

-understanding diagnosis

-major personality disorders

-managing well being in the staff teams

-practical treatment interventions for personality disorder

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Practical Management of PTSD  (1 or 2 Day): This course provides:

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-understanding how the brain processes trauma

-define the relationship between Acute Stress Disorder, PTSD and Complex PTSD

-reduce the clients emotional distress

-provide a range of symptom management techniques

-reduce survivor guilt

-develop relapse management plans

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Specific Treatment Interventions

Motivational Interviewing (1 or 2 Day): This course provides:

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-working with pre-contemplative clients

-key drivers of motivation for change

-the role of relationships factors in motivational interviewing

-reflective listening

-rolling with resistance

-4 phases of motivational interviewing

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Solution Focussed Therapy (1 or 2 Day): This course provides:

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-understanding the core assumption of solution focused and strengths based approaches

-alliance factors in solution focused work

-readiness for change in solution focused therapy

-the 5 core skills in solution focused therapy

-in between session change

-scaling and working with involuntary clients

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Effective Assessment and Case Management (1 or 2 Day): This course provides:

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-understanding core functions of screening, assessment and case management

-identify relevant factors at assessment

-atypical responses at assessment 

-key skills in effective goal setting

-improving referal processes

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Working with Treatment Resistant Clients (1 or 2 Day): This course provides:

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-understanding the three central sources of resistance

-respond to resistance in stuck clients

-dealing with resistance even when change is desired

-develop new communication skills that by pass resistance

-review resistance that emerges from practice 

-monitor and respond to rupture in working alliances

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Examples of Training Packs

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Examples of Training Participants

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• EDP

• BDP

• Turning Point

• AMPS Teams

• Child Protection Boards

• Addaction

• Lifeline

• Plymouth Harbour

• GDAS

• Probation

• Emirates Airlines

• YOI Ashfields

• HMP Full Sutton

• HMP Send

• HMP Downview

• HMP Earlestocke

• HMP Huntercoombe

Conferences, Symposiums & Seminars

I have spoken at over 30 conferences, seminars and symposiums.  These include:

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• National Steering Group on Adolescent Mental Health, Royal College of GPs

• National Substance Misuse Conference, Royal College of GPs

• UKESAD, London

• Welsh National DIP Conference, Carmarthen

• AMPS Regional Conference, Devon

• Reach Out Families Conference, Bristol

• Protecting Vulnerable Young People and Risk, Edinburgh

• ADFAM Concerned Other Symposium, London

• Cheltenham Science Festival, Cheltenham

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If you would like me to speak at a conference, seminar or symposium, please contact me directly.

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