From stress to psychosis:
How to prevent people having breakdowns
A one-day course with tutor: Ivan Tyrrell
Course outline:
Ivan Tyrrell’s groundbreaking training day explores what happens in the brain when it is put under stress and how this affects our emotional life and mental health. It also shows how the latest knowledge and insights can be easily applied to improve the mental health of people suffering from a wide range of conditions
– including the more serious.
When innate needs are not met well, stress levels rise rapidly and anxiety, depression – and, in some people, psychosis – are the result. Tyrrell describes a new theory which explains the symptoms of schizophrenia and psychotic episodes and the resulting psychotherapeutic guidelines that offer new hope for sufferers and are improving treatment.
During the day you will also discover why the APET model is so useful in helping practitioners improve the way they think about what is happening for their patients. As well as rapidly improving treatment, it throws fascinating light on why the most effective therapeutic approaches work. It also fulfils the criteria for a much-needed new model that integrates psychotherapy and counselling with the latest findings about brain functioning and human behaviour.
An essential day for mental health workers at all levels.
| What you will gain from the day: | |
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The three reasons why mental illnesses arise |
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An understanding of the more effective treatment possibilities science is opening up for clinical psychology, psychotherapy and counselling |
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Knowledge about what increasing stress levels to do our brains and bodies – the mental health continuum |
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Why some stressed people but not others experience psychotic symptoms (such as hallucinations, dusions and hearing voices) and the new theory which explains them |
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Nature's way of reducing emotional arousal and avoiding stress overload – the benefits and potential downside |
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What everyone needs to be mentally and emotionally healthy – and how to maintain that wellbeing |
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A moving insight into Asperger’s syndrome |
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Why high functioning people with Asperger's are easily stressed and cause stress in others |
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The reasons for sex variations in levels of mental illness |
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A greater understanding of the mind/body connection |
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A remarkable observation (shown on film) about the connection between stress, dreaming, depression and psychosis. |
| Who should attend? | |
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Psychotherapists, counsellors, clinical psychologists, psychiatrists, doctors, psychiatric nurses, occupational therapists, health visitors, nurses, pastoral workers, social workers, youth workers, trainee counsellors, psychology students, etc. – and particularly anyone working with depressed and anxious people and people suffering from psychosis. |
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Anyone wanting to understand more about the latest effective strategies for alleviating emotional disturbance (for professional or private reasons) which make the most of the very latest insights from brain science. |
Course programme:
Registration: 8.30am to 9.30am (Tea or coffee served until 9.25am)
9.30am How everyday life affects the mind/body system: an essential overview
A guide to recent scientific findings about brain functioning and behaviour – the essence of the processes involved. Including: the evolution of human brains; the importance of developmental templates (illustrated with a film of someone with Asperger’s syndrome); how emotions lock attention; how the brain deals with unresolved emotional arousal; perception; pattern-matching; different levels of awareness and consciousness.
11.00am — Tea/coffee and discussion
11.30am – The APET model explored: its application with stress
and depression
The connection between emotions and thought. Why cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) takes longer than it needs to. What happens when patterns seek completion. Three vital principles that explain why some types of therapy and counselling are more effective than others. How the APET model connects up effective therapeutic approaches. The APET approach to treating depression. Why depression gives us a wonderful way in to understanding the brain and human behaviour in ways everyone can grasp. Case histories.
1.00pm — Lunch break
2.00pm – Psychosis: what is going on?
A remarkable filmed session with someone experiencing psychotic episodes that shows why stress overload and depression can lead to schizophrenia in the small percentage of the population with the genetic pre-disposition for it. This film inspired a new explanation for what is happening in psychosis and points to some clear guidelines to follow when working with schizophrenic patients. These guidelines are proving remarkably successful.
3.00pm — Tea/coffee and discussion
3.30pm – APET and the treatment of serious disorders
How and why panic attacks, trauma, phobias, OCD and other problems can be dealt with much faster when knowledge about the pattern-matching properties of the brain are applied through this approach.
4.30pm — Day ends
| YORK: | Date: Wednesday 30th May 2012 Venue: King's Manor, University of York Times: Each day starts at 9.30am and ends at 4.30pm Course Code: IS06 |
| BRISTOL: | Date: Wednesday 19th September 2012 Venue: Clifton Hill House, University of Bristol Times: Each day starts at 9.30am and ends at 4.30pm Course Code: IS07 |
| LONDON: | Date: Wednesday 7th November 2012 Venue: Friends House Quaker Meeting Centre Times: Each day starts at 9.30am and ends at 4.30pm Course Code: IS08 |
| PRICE: | £160 plus vat (£192) per person. Fee includes tuition, course notes, attendance certificate, lunch
and refreshments. *Dublin price: £175 per person. Fee includes tuition, course notes, attendance certificate, lunch and refreshments. ______________________________________________ Thinking of booking 5 or more courses? |
To book by phone, call: 01323 811690
Alternatively, you can download an application form and post or fax it to:
Human Givens College,
Chalvington,
East Sussex,
BN27 3TD
fax: 00 44 (0)1323 811486
Also see, How to Book.