Psychosocial Interventions and Assessment in Mental Health

• Stress Vulnerability model
• Developing therapeutic relationships with service users and their significant others
• Methods of assessment using validated assessment scales and through Socratic questioning
• Comprehensive assessment of presenting problems of service users
• Developing case formulations based upon results of comprehensive assessments
• Producing person centred problem lists and action plans
• Working with clients who experience psychotic symptoms such as delusions and hallucinations
• Working with ambivalence
• The five areas approach
• Identifying negative automatic thoughts

Motivational techniques will be introduced to enable the development of linking formulations to evidence-based psychosocial interventions. ABC model of psychosis, working with people who hear voices, and solution focused therapy will be introduced to you to assist your development and understanding of the underpinning values of such interventions. You will be expected to extend existing person-centred skills to develop and enhance your ability to communicate effectively with patients/clients, their family/carers and other health professionals.