Description
Personality Disorder causes distress both to the individual concerned and those around them, yet is so poorly understood even by professionals that the term 'Personality Disorder' is sometimes used as little more than a term of abuse for patients who have consistently frustrated those who are trying to help them.
The ADDRESS® Course is designed to provide delegates with (a) a proper understanding of personality disorder and (b) professional and effective ways of responding to the most difficult behaviours that people with personality disorder produce, and (c) a clear and systematic sequence of steps to consistently deliver successful treatment interventions.
The APT has mastered the delivery of training 'online anytime'; providing top class training you can access right now or any time that suits you. No longer do you have to wait for 'the start date' of the course.
"The course was fantastic, it was so interesting and relevant to the service users I work with."
Personality Disorder training from the Association for Psychological Therapies (APT), includes APT accreditation, certification, and resources. And the APT has perfected the art of delivering it in a way that makes it appear simple and easy to apply.
"An excellent course that all staff should attend."
With a wealth of clinical experience, the course has been written by Dr William Davies and presented by Dr Martin Horler, who presents the course with relevant stories and examples, and an engaging lightness which perfectly complements the power of the subject.
"Probably the best training I have received in the past 20 years."
The ADDRESS® Course gives you access to important resources for you to use post-course. It can be studied by teams or individuals and can also be completed as part of (a) the Extended Training in CBT course, (b) The APT Diploma in Working with common mental health diagnoses, or (c) The APT Diploma for working in Secure Psychiatric and Forensic Settings.
For further information on the format of APT online training, the APT’s guarantee to you, and how to make a group booking, click here.
Bookings:
To access the course straightaway, click ‘add to cart’ to purchase by card or PayPal. (If you are ordering the course for somebody else, or a group, create an account and select ‘Bulk Purchase’ once you have proceeded to cart.)
If you would like to be invoiced, please email finance@apt.ac (once the invoice has been paid or upon receipt of an official Purchase Order, we can then grant access to the course).
Objectives
Course Aims:
- The concept of personality and personality disorder.
- How can you tell this person is suffering from a personality disorder? Forming a conceptualisation: what lies behind the problem, what is maintaining it and, therefore, what can be done about it?
First Aid:
- Effective strategies for responding to common problematic behaviours from people diagnosed as personality disordered, including 'attention seeking', threats to harm themselves, 'blackmail', and others.
Understanding and treatment interventions:
- Understanding what happens in the different parts of the brain: why people repeatedly act against their own interests and as 'their own worst enemy'.
- Generating insight in the person that certain aspects of what they do and/or the way they see things is causing problems. Raising their own observations to the status of knowledge - to motivate change.
- Planning a better strategy for the person to respond to the situations that cause problems for them or others.
- How to support the person in implementing the plan. How to help the person sustain the progress they achieve by developing and implementing a maintenance plan.
- Building and maintaining the relationship: relationship dangers, relation-fractures and repairs thereof.
- Validation and validation+ - key interventions that many professionals omit, and yet are essential for effective intervention.
- Nurturing of the person's self-efficacy, fostering the idea that the person can succeed in changing even after successive failures.
- The best predictor of future behaviour is past behaviour. That is, in the case of personality disorder, that the person keeps making the same mistakes, or, when they do something well, refrain from repeating it. We must be able to facilitate the person'slearning from their experiences - both good and bad.
- The square peg in the square hole: effective manipulations of both the social and physical environments that can short-circuit years of individual therapy.
- The principal biological factors that can transform a person, both for better and for worse. What they are, how they affect the deepest levels of the brain, and how to motivate patients to work on them.
- Evidence-based practice and the importance of monitoring success in treatment: obtaining data and analysing it.
- Supporting yourself: for your own good and the good of those you work with.
- Case studies: prepared studies to analyse and 'solve'; applying ADDRESS® to your own current cases.
What this course will do for you:
- It will provide you with a proper understanding of – and maybe even empathy with - personality disorder.
- You will know how to manage all the most difficult and common challenges that people with personality disorder present.
- You will have a clear and systematic sequence of steps to consistently deliver successful interventions.
- It will equip you with skills that are essential to working with personality disorder, many of which can be transferred to other areas of your professional and personal life.
Who should attend?
All professionals who work with people diagnosed as 'personality disordered', including 'borderline personality disorder' whether in community, inpatient or secure settings.
Bookings:
To access the course straightaway, click ‘add to cart’ to purchase by card or PayPal. (If you are ordering the course for somebody else, or a group, create an account and select ‘Bulk Purchase’ once you have proceeded to cart.)
If you would like to be invoiced, please email finance@apt.ac (once the invoice has been paid or upon receipt of an official Purchase Order, we can then grant access to the course).
Certificate
By completing/passing this course, you will attain the certificate APT Accreditation, Level 2 (18 hours CPD)
Learning credits
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