This knowledge and skills-based course will help you to help people tell their story and make sense of their emotional distress, troubled and troubling behaviour.
Your will learn how to help people with complex needs make sense of their... Read More
Motivational Interviewing is a potent, evidence-based approach for working with people with troubling behaviour who do not yet see the need for change.
Whilst around since the early 1980s, the approach was updated... Read More
The Third Wave of CBT looks at changing behaviour and the context of cognitions, by adopting mindfulness, acceptance and compassion approaches.
This course will explain the change and how it... Read More
Once upon a time, solution-focussed approaches relied heavily on questioning; it could lead to a failure to validate negative emotions.
This new approach to Solution-Focussed interventions draws strongly on the new ideas in neuroscience... Read More
This course looks at a range of ways of understanding how people lapse and relapse back to problematic behaviour after making a successful change.
It focuses particularly on the newer mindfulness-based approaches... Read More
This is a knowledge-based course that summarises the latest developments in neuropsychology and evolutionary psychology. It explains the rapid explosion of addiction to behaviours beyond taking substances, such as use of social media, gaming and... Read More
Groupwork is a fabulous way to build the kind of social connection that is central to new approaches for responding to complex needs.
The evidence is that people with better social connections have better physical and mental health... Read More
Peer support is an important part of a wellbeing society. It is increasingly being recognised that offering support to others creates meaning, purpose and wellbeing.
This course will help you consider how best to help ‘service users’ transition to peer supporters... Read More
Using the Five Ways to Wellbeing model, this course is an opportunity to reflect on personal wellbeing, consider some of the latest research on mental health and develop new approaches to managing life’s challenges... Read More
So often people who have struggled with complex issues want to give back to society. Hooray.
And yet, the temptation can be to give back where we have struggled. This can trap us in an identity based on how we used to be... Read More
Spice (Synthetic Cannabinoid Receptor Agonists) use is increasing. These chemicals pose unique problems and are frequently used by people with a range of issues, and often known to mental health, drugs and alcohol, criminal justice and homelessness...Read More
This course has been designed for individuals who are currently at or wish to progress to management or team leadership roles in health, social care and related fields. It will help you manage people who work or volunteer with vulnerable adults...Read More