MENTAL HEALTH TRAINING

In-house Training for Mental Health Services

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Presentations

Can be delivered as keynote and workshops at your workplace or nominated venue in Australia or Asia.

KEY SKILLS in FAMILY THERAPY

4.92 out of 5 ⭐

Systemic Approaches to Working with Individuals, Couples and Families

Our 'flag-ship' two-day workshop introduces core Family Therapy concepts as well as providing practical skills and interventions. It makes complex theory easy to grasp and the related techniques easy to implement making it one of our most popular workshops. It is for practitioners who work with children, young people, adults, couples, families, and/or organisations supporting clients with mental health issues.

Duration: 15 hrs (2 days) workshop to professionals. 

Location: By arrangement at your workplace or nominated venue anywhere in Australia or Asia.

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SOLUTION FOCUSED BRIEF THERAPY

4.71 out of 5 ⭐

Australia's no.1 training for Mental Health Services

SFBT is a user-friendly and evidence-based approach that is effective with a range of mental health and well-being issues including anxiety, depression and trauma.

Solution Focused Brief Therapy

Duration: 14 hours (2 days) workshop to professionals. 

Location: By arrangement at your workplace or nominated venue anywhere in Australia or Asia.

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HEY WARRIOR! 

4.84 out of 5 ⭐

Anxiety Explained, Kids Empowered

Based on the best selling book this hugely popular workshop, explores why anxiety is a very normal human response but for as many as 1 in 5 young people, the symptoms become so intrusive, they significantly interfere with day to day living. The effects can steal into families, classrooms and friendships. They can undermine the way children see themselves and shrink their world – but it doesn’t have to be this way. Anxiety is very manageable when it is recognised and properly managed. With the right support children can be empowered with the skills and knowledge to manage anxiety and move forward with courage and resilience.

Hey Warrior

Duration: 1.5 to 7 hours keynote, half-day or full-day workshop to professionals or parents.

Location: By arrangement at your workplace or nominated venue anywhere in Australia or Asia.

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OVERCOMING SCHOOL REFUSAL 

Answers to questions teachers, counsellors and parents need to know!

This interactive, one day workshop explores the causes, co-morbidities and treatment of School Refusal in children and young people, along with providing step-by-step plans and strategies for educators, health professionals and parents to identify and address the problem. Combining educational and clinical perspectives, the workshop uses real case studies to demonstrate the varied reasons students disengage from school, and how tailored interventions and return to school plans, can meet the specific needs of individual children. This instructive workshop identifies and explores the complex workings of School Refusal and provides a structured best-practice approach to overcoming it. Translating research and jargon into understanding and practical strategies this workshop is suitable for all principals and educators (P-12), health professionals, GPs, paediatricians, family support workers, residential carers, MH day-program staff, and parents/ carers. 

Overcoming School Refusal

Duration: 7 hours (1 day) workshop to professionals or parents.

Location: By arrangement at your workplace or nominated venue anywhere in Australia or Asia.

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WORKING SAFELY with FAMILIES & TRAUMA

4.84 out of 5 ⭐

A Neurobiological Approach to Trauma Stabilisation and Family Therapy

Practitioners can easily get so caught up in the roller coaster ride of crises, suicide attempts, hospitalisations, addiction relapses, and self-destructive acting-out that we ourselves start to feel out of control! This workshop integrates a neurobiologically informed understanding of trauma, dissociation, and attachment within a framework of family therapy.

Working Safely with Families and Trauma

Duration: 15 Hours (2 days) workshop to professionals.

Location: By arrangement at your workplace or nominated venue anywhere in Australia or Asia.

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PICTURE THIS

Harnessing the Therapeutic Power of Genograms

This workshop will open up the enormous possibilities and potential of the genogram as a process for both assessment, and intervention. Widely used by family therapists and all health care professionals, the genogram is a graphic way of organising the mass of information gathered during a family assessment and finding patterns in the family system for more targeted treatment. Done correctly a genogram interview is a powerful assessment tool giving more detailed understanding of case presentations and how to plan targeted interventions. 

Picture This

Duration: 7 Hours (1 day) workshop to professionals.

Location: By arrangement at your workplace or nominated venue anywhere in Australia or Asia.

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SYSTEMS & STORIES

4.74 out of 5 

A Narrative Therapy Approach to Meaning Making and Change

This workshop will provide participants with key skills in Narrative Practice including practical clinical skills that can be used immediately with individuals and families (children, adolescents, adults and older persons).  Participants will consider the relevance of Narrative Practice in their work setting, and applications relating to the context of trauma, relationships, and grief and loss.  Participants will consider how to “tread lightly” but effectively with Narrative Practice.

 

Duration: 15 Hours (2 days) workshop to professionals.

Location: By arrangement at your workplace or nominated venue anywhere in Australia or Asia.

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STUFF THAT SUCKS

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy with Young People

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) is an empirically supported therapeutic approach that draws on behavioural and mindfulness principles to help people make space for painful thoughts and feelings and instead turn their focus towards values. Rapidly growing in popularity internationally and used successfully with people experiencing a range of life challenges including low mood, worries, difficult behaviour, anger, anxiety, and interpersonal or family conflict. This workshop will introduce participants to the fundamentals of ACT with a specific focus on its successful application with younger people.

Stuff That Sucks

Duration: 7 Hours (1 day) workshop to professionals. 

Location: By special arrangement

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SHAME

The Toxic Emotion 

Shame is painful, hard-wired, rapid response, primitive emotion. It is often activated by the loss of relationship connection or threat of demotion or exclusion. Being an emotional experience that can be intensely painful, shame has the capacity to negatively impact self worth and how a person relates to others. The experience of toxic, maladaptive shame is so destructive, it is closely associated with most major mental health issues including depression, body image and eating disorders, borderline personality disorder, drug and alcohol abuse, violence , social anxiety disorder, post traumatic stress and suicide. Yet the pain and embarrassment associated with this experience of shame drives it underground where it is suppressed, denied or managed in a way that creates even more distress to self and others.

Shame

Duration: 7 hours (1 day) workshop to professionals

Location: By arrangement at your workplace or nominated venue anywhere in Australia or Asia

GAME OVER

Technology Dependence and Mental Health 

As we cautiously watch young people (and ourselves) navigate the ever-changing digital landscape, there’s increasing concern of technology dependence.  A term describing the compulsive need to spend significant time on the Internet, to the point where relationships, work and health suffer. Our daily online use is increasingly immersive and persuasive, enabling a high level of accessibility and interaction with daily personalised notifications. Increasing usage from healthy to compulsive too dependent. 

Game Over

Duration: 7 Hours (1 day) workshop to professionals. 

Location: By special arrangement (NZ based trainer)

SEXUALLY HARMFUL BEHAVIOUR

Assessing Risk and Developing Safety

More than any other challenging behaviour, the sexual abuse of one child by another generates anxiety, puzzlement and confusion. Professionals confident in dealing with defiant or delinquent children find their confidence leaves them when confronted with sexual misbehaviour in children who they expect to be asexual. The workshop introduces the audience to the practical application of a strengths based approach to safety assessments with a particular emphasis on narrative and solution focused therapy and the Signs of Safety Model (Turnell &Edwards 1999). The workshop will discuss how these approaches can be applied in developing a language to support the young person and their families/caregivers in talking about the sexually concerning or harmful behaviour, safety planning, responsibility taking, assessing levels of safety and working with denial.

Sexually Harmful Behaviour

Duration: 7 Hours (1 day) workshop to professionals. 

Location: By special arrangement

ACCESSABILITY 

Adapting Therapy for Children and Adolescents with Intellectual Disabilities

Nearly half of all children and adolescents with an Intellectual Disability (ID) have co-morbid mental health disorders along with elevated rates of both externalising and internalising problem behaviours compared to their typically developing peers, with anxiety reported as the most prevalent mood disorder in young people with ID. The added impact of mental health difficulties on the lives of young people with ID is substantial. Once mental health problems emerge, young people with ID are likely to suffer from them for a long time and significantly impact educational, vocational and social opportunities. Recent research supports the use of psychological therapies among young people with mild to moderate ID. Despite this, rates of mental illness remain high and access to mental health services is low. One identified barrier to people with ID accessing psychological treatments is the confidence of practitioners in working with this population. The presentation will provide an understanding of how Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT) can be adapted for the unique needs of children and adolescents with ID and used as an effective intervention. In addition, the workshop will provide a better understanding of the components of CBT and how to use the materials in a way that is most clinically relevant for this population

Accessibility

Duration: 7 hours (1 day) workshop to professionals

Location: By special arrangement

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