An in-house workshop with tutor: Iain Caldwell
Workshop outline:
This powerful, yet down-to-earth workshop shows you how to stop severely distressed people rebounding hopelessly from one mental health service to another and how to help them recover meaningful lives — often remarkably quickly.
Tutor Iain Caldwell and his team at Hartlepool Mind routinely and cost-effectively produce dramatic turnarounds in the lives of many hundreds of complex, severely mentally ill cases every year. So successful is their approach with people suffering from psychotic disorders, dissociated states (including PTSD), self-harming, mood swings, OCD, anger disorders, addiction, poor social skills and co-morbidity (a mix of any of the above), that they are now receiving more referrals than all the local statutory and voluntary services put together.
Now you can find out how they do it.
| What you will gain from the day: | |
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New insights into the causes and symptoms of psychosis |
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Effective ways to work and connect with psychotic patients and help them take back control of their lives |
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A strong and practical alternative to the tyranny of the medical model |
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New thinking about support networks, and how to get clients to commit to one |
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A straightforward way to design a realistic recovery plan |
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Ways to use metaphors which clients can relate to |
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Case studies which show how much more can be done to help people than is often thought |
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A clear vision of how mental health treatment could be dramatically improved nationwide. |
| Who should attend? | |
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Any member of the caring professions involved in helping distressed people with severe mental health problems – GPs, psychotherapists, psychiatric nurses, clinical psychologists, psychiatrists, occupational therapists, health visitors, social and support workers. |
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Anyone wanting to hear about the latest insights into psychotic behaviour, whether for professional or personal reasons, and practical strategies for some of the most complex mental health problems. |
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Individuals in the NHS and social services with managerial responsibility for creating humane mental health services.
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Workshop programme:
The Workshop Day:
Registration: 8.30am to 9.30am (Tea or coffee before 9.25 am)
9.30am – Real hope for those with serious mental health problems
We explore the limitations of traditional approaches to mental ill health (including schizophrenia) and the harmful implications of working from them. Why it is now possible to do much better working from insights about mind and body links that give us a new explanation of psychosis. Identifying the problem, using the FERMER technique. Making effective use of mood and daily rhythm charts; help clients spot their personal signatures of mood change. Exercise: Case study using the APET model.
11.00 am — Refreshment and discussion
11.30am – Relieving severe mental distress
We explore the dire consequences for some people when circumstances prevent them from getting their innate needs met and show how, by introducing a sustained programme concentrating on this aspect of their problem, complete recovery is possible. FILM of a person who is successfully managing their psychosis. How to protect yourself against emotional arousal.
1.00pm — Lunch (provided)
2.00pm – How to put a genuine recovery plan into place
Managing symptoms with the APET model: how this allows you to deal effectively with the psychological and physiological experience of psychosis, bi-polar disorder, stress and depression, and gives multiple points of intervention. How to identify the key components needed to help clients get their innate emotional and physical needs met and thus regain their mental health. The importance of teamwork. Exercise: Developing reframes that will move even the most challenging client.
3.15pm — Refreshment and discussion
3.45pm – Managing symptoms with the APET model
Developing the bio-psycho-social skills needed to overcome the tyranny of medical labels, stereotyping and stigma. Specific language skills that motivate, challenge and influence clients. Using the RIGAAR model to set realistic goals. Exercise: designing a Recovery Plan and Support Network. Using relevant, concrete metaphors to motivate clients.
4.45 pm — Day ends