The UK’s leading providers of mental health training & consultancy – bespoke-designed to meet your needs.
This is not just another ‘mental health awareness’ workshop. We are one of the UKs leading expert providers of mental health support and abnormal psychology training. We’ve led from the front for over 20 years and have a five-star reputation for high quality evidence-based training and consultancy.
This training is delivered by highly qualified experts in the field of psychiatry. We support a wide range of clients in the public and private sectors including NHS trusts, local government, social work and social care providers, housing providers, national charities, the police and emergency services, residential care, private hospitals and international corporate business.
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We know the challenges that each organisation faces and how to integrate advice and training solutions that fit the needs of all.
We offer off-the-peg training if required. And we’re here to help you configure the exact training content that meets your detailed learning objectives. This is a wide and complex field at it helps to have an expert tailor and guide the content to ensure it’s a perfect fit for you and your team.
We know the challenges that each organisation faces and how to integrate advice and training solutions that fit the needs of all.
We offer off-the-peg training if required. And we’re here to help you configure the exact training content that meets your detailed learning objectives. This is a wide and complex field at it helps to have an expert tailor and guide the content to ensure it’s a perfect fit for you and your team.
This training is a one-day event and can be delivered onsite / face-to-face or by webinar. Extended training is available.
This workshop covers a range of psychiatric disorders and includes the following content:
- The psychology and psychiatry of common mental health problems;
- Recognising diagnosis and signposting individuals with mental health needs;
- Mood Disorders – Major Depression & Bipolar Disorder,
- Schizophrenia and Psychosis;
- Anxiety Disorders – Including Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, Generalised Anxiety Disorder, Panic Disorder and Agoraphobia, Specific Phobias, PTSD, Social Phobias, health anxieties;
- Eating Disorders;
- Personality Disorder with a key focus on Emotionally Unstable Personality Disorder / Borderline Personality Disorder and Dissocial / Antisocial Personality Disorder
- Self Injurious Behaviour and suicidality;
- Dementias & Neurocognitive Disorders
- Substance Misuse / Dual Diagnosis;
- Neurodevelopmental Disorders;
- Pharmaceuticals and psychological interventions;
- Differential Diagnosis, Comorbidity & the NICE Guidelines.
Here’s an example overview of a typical training workshop (10 bullet points):
1 – An overview of mental disorder and the field of psychological health problems. Every DSM 5 / ICD 11 diagnosis can be included to meet your learning needs.
2 – Diagnosis / assessment process with Video examples and client histories;
3- Understanding the precipitants of mental disorder including stress and its relationship with mental health conditions;
4 – Supporting, signposting and managing mental health conditions in your workplace setting. Including conversational supports / counselling strategies and positive behavioural supports;
5 – Understanding, recognising and managing mental health emergencies;
6 – Understand and managing self-harm and suicide;
7 – Understand and support individuals with behavioural vulnerabilities including personality disorder symptoms;
8 – NHS interventions, treatments and supporting people thorough treatment;
9 – The principles of pharmaceutical and talking therapies / skills-based treatments
10 – Expert training and facilitation. Delivered by a psychiatry-qualified trainer
Training facilitators:
This training is delivered by facilitators trained in psychiatry and specialise in general psychiatric illness and abnormal psychology, personality disorder and stress-related illness training.
We offer a wide-ranging, multi-disciplinary knowledge and skills with high quality, integrated evidence-based training that you can trust.
