The Skills Development Service courses

...Learn how to be brief when you were trained to be deep and spot complex causes and needs - Invaluable in a range of health care and social services environments...

...to meet their own and their supervisees' needs, to explore and learn how to deal with common supervisory dilemmas. Suitable for: Those who supervise...

...A practical one day course designed for health, social and voluntary services staff who want to develop their confidence and assertiveness at work Personal...

...Identify different group types and learn how to select the right techniques for each, learn how to work through group conflicts and misunderstandings...

...12.00 Five key sources of self esteem and how to decide on which you need to focus on with your clients: Self Efficacy, Positive Cognitions...

...An integrative resource based therapy (RBT) model approach to depression. Case illustrations 13.00 Lunch 14.00 2nd & 3rd Wave techniques for addressing...

...resource led with your clients even if you were trained to be needs led or pathology focused Overcome client resistance to change by bypassing deficits...

...will learn how to make sense of the difficult people they work with and how they fall within clearly identified categories, providing the first step in managing their behaviour...

...15.15 Refreshments 15.30 Intervention strategies and techniques (2) 15.45 Cognitive techniques with personality disorders 16.15 Strategies for personal...

...1st technique - Simple breathing exercise, demonstration & practice 2nd technique - Tai Chi breath, 5 positions, demonstration & practice 11.15 refreshments...

...Working Effectively with Complex Grief Problmes Specific issues relating to traumatic and multiple losses Distinguishing "normal" and "pathological"...

...Course Outline: 9.45 Registration & Refreshments 10.00 Introductions. 10.15 Ice breaker 1st Practice session Feedback and discussion 11.00 Refreshments...

...quality seminar materials on a free CD including photocopiable work- sheets, checklists and forms to use with your clients. All techniques will be illustrated...

...Why positive feedback does not always build self esteem .and what to do to change it Identify when to build clients' self esteem by helping them to think...

...(Small group exercise and discussion) 10.45 Preparatory issues - conflict prevention (1) (Presentation, demonstration & discussion)...

...11.30 Personal/Professional guidelines for behaviour 12.15 Team and interagency responses to personality disorders 13.00 Lunch 14.00 Intervention strategies...

...grief Working with "obsessional review" problems Managing recurrent anger and guilt within grief reactions. Real Cases and Real Outcome **NEW** Explore actual cases...

...09.45 Registration & refreshments 10.00 Introduction 10.10 Suicide & D.S.H. - The facts and figures 11.00 Assessing risk (1) 11.15 Refreshments 11.30 Assessing risk...

...history, national / international pressures, nature/nurture, temperance. 12 steps. Addiction as a social construct. 15.30 Break 15.50 Interventions...

...mindfulness and its use with clients (primarily on a group basis). Issues covered are: The structured practice of mindfulness exercises Practical issues around "where"...