Subjects and skills taught on the two-week diploma course (Part 2)
The subjects and skills consolidated and taught during the intensive two-week course include:
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Constructing effective psychological interventions using RIGAAR |
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Quick rapport building skills – verbal and non-verbal |
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Fast, effective information gathering |
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How to avoid getting sucked into the patient’s subjective world |
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Listening skills, observing verbal and non-verbal cues |
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Reflective reframing (active listening with a twist) |
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Using language to build expectation and initiate change |
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How to establish clear goals with patients and agree strategies for achieving them |
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How to discover the client’s psychological and behavioural resources |
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Working with the ‘The Observing Self’ concept |
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Anxiety management, including how to deal with panic attacks, PTSD, agoraphobia and OCD |
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The role of timing in therapy |
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Understanding and using the body’s natural relaxation response |
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The beneficial effects of relaxation on all forms of harmful emotional arousal |
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How to teach patients deep relaxation – a variety of techniques |
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Neutralising sub-threshold traumas and ‘molar memories’ |
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Separating the patient’s core identity from their problem |
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Releasing locked-in patterns of trauma and dealing with abreaction |
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Pattern matching: how unconscious processes work |
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How to avoid creating false memories |
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Stimulating mental and physical healing – the power of attention, information and laughter |
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How to teach missing social skills |
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The importance of volition, clients have a need to take control of their lives |
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How to separate belief and opinion from fact and look directly at people and their situations |
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Understanding perception – why most therapy models unwittingly bias how patients are viewed |
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Stress and the mind/body system – an holistic view of physical health |
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How to stimulate the immune system – language, physiology and healing |
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Orienting questions and pattern interventions |
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Analysis of live demonstrations of psychotherapy |
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Transforming the intensity of a patient’s experience |
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Depathologising and changing labels |
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Using direct and indirect language |
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The metaphorical mind: Why the brain evolved to work with stories – the search for analogy |
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How to create and tell healing stories |
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The role of suggestibility in mind/body healing |
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Guided imagery to rehearse new behaviours |
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Sleep disorders |
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Why people get depressed – the cycle of depression |
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How to lift depression quickly and encourage permanent change |
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Working with self-harmers |
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Psychological techniques for pain management |
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Useful cognitive behavioural (CBT) approaches brought up to date with the APET model |
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Dealing with difficult relationships and sexual problems and how to help those who have been physically, sexually or emotionally abused |
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Understanding why we evolved to dream |
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The relationship between dreaming and psychosis |
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Creativity, problem solving and brain function |
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Treating alcoholism, drug abuse and eating disorders |
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The stages of quitting: mobilising motivation – how to free yourself and others from addictive behaviour |
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Identifying and working with Asperger’s syndrome |
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Ethics & professional conduct: sexual/relationship issues – discernment; the sick and dying; intractable illness |
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Finding the spare capacity in yourself to be effective |
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Using outcome measurement as part of effective practice |
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Developing a private practice, for those who wish to. |