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Single-Session Therapy, for maximum client benefit.

'Single-Session Therapy, for maximum client benefit' is a course from the Association for Psychological Therapies (APT), a leading provider of training for professionals working in mental health and related areas in the UK and Ireland. It is available as a 1-day (6 hour) live course or a more in-depth 12 hour ‘online anytime’ course.

It is the only Single-Session Therapy training that is APT-accredited and also gives you access to APT’s relevant downloadable resources for use post-course. The course is available for teams and individuals and can be attended face-to-face or online.

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Executive Summary:

All clinicians want to provide patients with the maximum benefit, but many are acutely aware that while they are providing one person with the best they can offer, they are providing ten or more others with nothing at all. And that clearly isn’t equitable, either for the patients concerned or for the clinician, who often feels frustrated and under pressure as a result. This course is designed to illustrate that there is a realistic solution to the dilemma and that a single session input can be surprisingly effective and rewarding, both for patients and clinicians. Appropriately for busy clinicians, this is a suitably short course!

Who should attend?

People who attend this course normally fall into one of two categories:

1. Groups of professionals who see patients in 1:1 treatment settings, have a significant degree of clinical skill, and wish to become proficient in offering single session therapy.

2. 'Whole teams' (either in inpatient or community settings) seeking to develop a unified level of proficiency in single session therapy.

The professional affiliations of people attending this course include: mental health/psychiatric nurses, social workers, occupational therapists, clinical psychologists, psychiatrists, probation officers and others working in a variety of settings including: Substance Misuse, Forensic, Adult Mental Health, and Children & Adolescents.

Course Overview:

• The rationale for and effectiveness of single session therapy.
• Level 1 SST: 'Counselling and advice'.
• Level 2 SST: 'Focusing on goals and how to achieve them'.
• Level 3 SST: 'Focusing on problems and how to solve them'.
• Level 4 SST: 'Case formulation and Plan'.
• How to decide which level to aim at: which level suits you and which level suits the patient you are with.
  
  

What this course will do for you. You will...

• You will be familiar with the rationale and use for single session therapy.
• You will know how to deliver single session therapy that helps the patient substantially, and suits you.
• You will be able to boost people's faith in their own ability to succeed.
• You will know how to give advice, and be able to do that skilfully.
  
  

What you receive as a result of attending the training:

You will be registered as having attended the course, thereby gaining APT's Level 1 accreditation, and receive a certificate to this effect. The accreditation gives you access to online resources associated with the course and free access to the online exam if you wish to uprate your APT accreditation to Level 2. (Note, the exam to uprate your accreditation to Level 2 is inbuilt in the 'online anytime' version of the course.)

Your registration lasts indefinitely, and your accreditation lasts for 3 years and is renewable by sitting an online refresher which also upgrades your accreditation to APT Level 2 if you are successful in the associated online exam.

Your accreditation is given value by the fact of over 150,000 people having attended APT training. See APT accreditation for full details.

Booking is easy... choose your favourite option: Option 1: Online Anytime course (12 hours CPD): A highly engaging pre-recorded course you can start any time any time you like – right now if you want. Price: £190 plus VAT per person. The fee covers: 3 years access to the course, certification, registration, and Level 2 APT Accreditation by completing the course and inbuilt exam.  Guarantee If you don’t complete the course for some reason, then you can simply ask for your money back! If you are a manager ordering multiple courses, and some of your team don’t complete them, you can ask us to transfer those courses to others in your team! Pay Now (access immediately)  Request Invoice (access when paid) Top of page Option 2: Online Live course (6 hours CPD): A live and interactive event hosted online via Zoom (and you don’t even have to have your own Zoom account). Price: £190 plus VAT per person. The fee covers: tuition, hardcopy workbook*, certification, registration, accreditation at APT’s Level 1, and option to sit an online exam to upgrade to Level 2.  Show available dates 3 September 2024 (3pm-9pm) 25 March 2025 (3pm-9pm) Booking Form Top of page Option 3: Exclusive course for your organisation (6 hours CPD): We can bring the course and tutor to you and your organisation, for a group of up to 15 people. Choose online via Zoom or Teams (£1,980 plus VAT, extra delegates £105 plus VAT per person), or Face-to-Face in the room (£2,720 plus VAT, Extra delegates: £160 plus VAT per person). To book, call (UK) 0116 241 8331, email office@apt.ac, or click the button:  Book Online Course  Book Face-to-Face Course Top of page *PDF workbooks are sent to those outside of the UK.

As a bona fide APT event, this course automatically has accreditation from The Association for Psychological Therapies. This means (i) that it contains the right amount of relevant information for its duration, and (ii) the information is presented in an engaging way, and in a way that will make it likely to be used after the course. APT verifies the accreditation by publishing the delegates' average ratings of relevance and presentation-quality for all its accredited courses. The accreditation is given value by over 150,000 professionals having attended APT courses.

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Feedback Ratings.

We continuously monitor the quality of our training by obtaining feedback on the two key scales of relevance and presentation from every course delegate. Below are the average ratings for the last two runnings of this course, which are updated periodically.

Online Live

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Presentation: 92%

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Relevance: 91%

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