Excellence in Mental Health Training.

CBT Essentials (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy)

 18-Hour Course

CBT Essentials is APT’s long-established introduction to Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, designed to make this powerful evidence-based approach immediately relevant to practice. It covers the history and principles of CBT, conceptualizing cases in CBT terms, the structure of a standard CBT session and the most important CBT techniques. Throughout, the content is applied to practical examples so learners understand both what CBT is and how to use it.

Motivational Interviewing, and how to use it effectively

 18-Hour Course

Based on Miller and Rollnick's latest book, this course describes an organized way of helping people recognize their problems and do something about them. It particularly addresses behavior about which a client has mixed feelings, including drinking and substance misuse, but applies to a wide range of mental and physical health issues.

DBT Essentials (Dialectical Behavior Therapy)

 18-Hour Course

DBT Essentials introduces the key concepts, skills and techniques of Dialectical Behavior Therapy. It covers validation, problem solving and contingency management alongside the core skills of mindfulness, distress tolerance, interpersonal effectiveness and emotional regulation, making it suitable both for professionals adding DBT to their practice and those considering further specialist training.

ACT Essentials (Acceptance & Commitment Therapy)

 18-Hour Course

ACT Essentials introduces Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and its focus on helping people live stable and rewarding lives. It covers values and values-based action, present-moment awareness, seeing thoughts and feelings for what they are, and accepting difficult internal experiences without excessive struggle, alongside practical skills for clinical practice.

Single-Session Therapy: Effective, Accessible, and Rewarding

 12-Hour Course

Single-Session Therapy need not be a second-best alternative to longer-term therapy: a well-structured single meeting can make a meaningful and lasting difference. This course shows clinicians how to use one session to maximum effect by establishing a clear focus, applying evidence-based techniques and helping patients move forward immediately. The skills-based approach can increase clinicians’ sense of effectiveness while helping services reach more people more quickly.

Providing Good Clinical Supervision

 12-Hour Course

This course is for professionals working in mental health and related fields who want to provide effective and ethical clinical supervision. It clarifies the purpose of supervision, introduces an effective model, and provides practical tools for delivering it well. By the end, you’ll feel confident providing high-quality supervision, one-to-one or in groups, that benefits both supervisees and their clients.

CFT Essentials (Compassion Focused Therapy).

 18-Hour Course

This course introduces CFT in a way that enables delegates to understand it and incorporate it into their clinical repertoire. The approach particularly helps clients develop compassion towards themselves, using specific therapeutic techniques alongside an understanding of how the brain and emotional systems operate. The course covers both the theory and practical skills of CFT, making the approach accessible without requiring delegates to practice exclusively as compassion-focused therapists.

Trauma-Informed Practice (TIP)

 3-Hour Course

Trauma-Informed Practice aims to ensure services are delivered in ways that avoid further harm or retraumatization for people who have experienced trauma or adversity. Applicable across mental health, healthcare, residential care, justice, addiction and education, the course explores key principles including safety, trust, choice, collaboration and empowerment. Case examples demonstrate how individuals and organizations can systematically apply these principles and overcome barriers to implementation.

Trauma-Focused CBT, for all ages

 18-Hour Course

PTSD can profoundly affect a person’s life through intrusive memories, avoidance or emotional numbing, hyperarousal and impaired everyday functioning. This course examines effective Cognitive Behavioral Therapy-based interventions for addressing those effects across different ages. The focus is both on reducing symptoms wherever possible and on helping clients substantially improve their quality of life where some consequences of trauma cannot be completely removed.

SFT Essentials (Solution-Focused Therapy)

 18-Hour Course

SFT Essentials introduces Solution-Focused Therapy and the practical skills needed to apply it safely and effectively. Fundamentally positive in its approach, SFT focuses attention on solutions, strengths and progress rather than becoming increasingly absorbed in the problem, helping professionals incorporate solution-focused thinking into their everyday practice.

Motivational Interviewing, and how to use it effectively

 3-day course

Based on Miller and Rollnick's latest book, this course describes an organized way of helping people recognize their problems and do something about them. It particularly addresses behavior about which a client has mixed feelings, including drinking and substance misuse, but applies to a wide range of mental and physical health issues.

DBT Essentials (Dialectical Behavior Therapy)

 3-day course

DBT Essentials introduces the key concepts, skills and techniques of Dialectical Behavior Therapy. It covers validation, problem solving and contingency management alongside the core skills of mindfulness, distress tolerance, interpersonal effectiveness and emotional regulation, making it suitable both for professionals adding DBT to their practice and those considering further specialist training.

ACT Essentials (Acceptance & Commitment Therapy)

 3-day course

ACT Essentials introduces Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and its focus on helping people live stable and rewarding lives. It covers values and values-based action, present-moment awareness, seeing thoughts and feelings for what they are, and accepting difficult internal experiences without excessive struggle, alongside practical skills for clinical practice.

CBT Essentials (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy)

 3-day course

CBT Essentials is APT’s long-established introduction to Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, designed to make this powerful evidence-based approach immediately relevant to practice. It covers the history and principles of CBT, conceptualizing cases in CBT terms, the structure of a standard CBT session and the most important CBT techniques. Throughout, the content is applied to practical examples so delegates can understand not simply what CBT is, but how to use it.

Key Knowledge & Skills for working with Alcohol and Substance Misuse

 3-day course

When use of mood altering substances gets out of control it ruins the person's life - until we help them regain control. The maladaptive use of mood altering substances (importantly, including alcohol) may easily devastate the life of the user and of those around them. Although onset may be insidious the effect can be far reaching and difficult to reverse without skilled and determined intervention. This course covers the Cognitive Behavioral Therapy solutions.

Positive Behavior Support (PBS)

 3-day course

This course provides a thorough, consistent and values-led approach to Positive Behavior Support. Delegates learn to understand individual needs, analyze behavior and the function it serves, and develop personalized PBS plans designed to improve wellbeing and reduce the likelihood of disturbed behavior. It also addresses crisis management and continual review, providing a positive and proactive approach that can improve the experience of both clients and staff.

SFT Essentials (Solution-Focused Therapy)

 3-day course

SFT Essentials introduces Solution-Focused Therapy and the practical skills needed to apply it safely and effectively. Fundamentally positive in its approach, SFT focuses attention on solutions, strengths and progress rather than becoming increasingly absorbed in the problem, helping professionals incorporate solution-focused thinking into their everyday practice.

CBT for OCD

 2-day course

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder usually takes over the sufferer's life, and it is the behavioral element of CBT that come to the fore in treating it. An obsession is where the person has a fixed idea that is distressing (e.g. that their hands are contaminated and will lead to a serious illness or death) and a compulsion to perform a particular behavior (in this case, probably to wash their hands). This often has a ritualistic nature to it (e.g. to wash 3 times) and the whole syndrome can devastate a person's life both in terms of time, relationships, and finances. This course covers the Cognitive Behavioral Therapy solutions to OCD.

Trauma-Focused CBT, for all ages

 3-day course

PTSD can profoundly affect a person’s life through intrusive memories, avoidance or emotional numbing, hyperarousal and impaired everyday functioning. This course examines effective Cognitive Behavioral Therapy-based interventions for addressing those effects across different ages. The focus is both on reducing symptoms wherever possible and on helping clients substantially improve their quality of life where some consequences of trauma cannot be completely removed.

CFT Essentials (Compassion-Focused Therapy training)

 3-day course

CFT Essentials introduces Compassion-Focused Therapy in a way that enables delegates to understand it and incorporate it into their clinical repertoire. The approach particularly helps clients develop compassion towards themselves, using specific therapeutic techniques alongside an understanding of how the brain and emotional systems operate. The course covers both the theory and practical skills of CFT, making the approach accessible without requiring delegates to practice exclusively as compassion-focused therapists.

SFT Essentials (Solution-Focused Therapy)

 3-day course

SFT Essentials introduces Solution-Focused Therapy and the practical skills needed to apply it safely and effectively. Fundamentally positive in its approach, SFT focuses attention on solutions, strengths and progress rather than becoming increasingly absorbed in the problem, helping professionals incorporate solution-focused thinking into their everyday practice.

CBT Essentials (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy)

 3-day course

CBT Essentials is APT’s long-established introduction to Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, designed to make this powerful evidence-based approach immediately relevant to practice. It covers the history and principles of CBT, conceptualizing cases in CBT terms, the structure of a standard CBT session and the most important CBT techniques. Throughout, the content is applied to practical examples so delegates can understand not simply what CBT is, but how to use it.

Motivational Interviewing, and how to use it effectively

 3-day course

Based on Miller and Rollnick's latest book, this course describes an organized way of helping people recognize their problems and do something about them. It particularly addresses behavior about which a client has mixed feelings, including drinking and substance misuse, but applies to a wide range of mental and physical health issues.

The RAID® Course for working wih Challenging Behavior

 3-day course

A leading approach for tackling disturbed and challenging behavior at source: over 20,000 professionals have attended it. It is a comprehensive system which teaches professionals a philosophy and practice not only to deal with disturbed and challenging behavior when it occurs, but also to prevent it by nurturing positive behavior targetted to displace the disturbed and challenging behavior. Staff feel pleased to share a unified system and to know what they are doing and why they are doing it, while clients delight in a relentlessly positive and empowering approach..

Key Knowledge & Skills for working with Alcohol and Substance Misuse

 3-day course

When use of mood altering substances gets out of control it ruins the person's life - until we help them regain control. The maladaptive use of mood altering substances (importantly, including alcohol) may easily devastate the life of the user and of those around them. Although onset may be insidious the effect can be far reaching and difficult to reverse without skilled and determined intervention. This course covers the Cognitive Behavioral Therapy solutions.

DBT for Adolescents (DBT-A)

 3-day course

DBT-A applies the key principles and techniques of Dialectical Behavior Therapy specifically to adolescents. It covers identity, impulsivity, emotional regulation, interpersonal and family difficulties, and high-risk behaviors including suicidal behavior and non-suicidal self-injury, for professionals using DBT-informed approaches or considering developing a full DBT service.

Providing Good Clinical Supervision

 2-day course

This course is for professionals working in mental health and related fields who want to provide high-quality clinical supervision that is both effective and ethical. Clinical supervision is a crucial process, but its purpose is often misunderstood. Should you ensure the supervisee is ‘doing it right,’ act as a sounding board for clinical thinking, or something else entirely? This course clarifies the aims of clinical supervision, introduces an effective model, and provides practical tools for setting up and delivering strong supervision contracts. By the end of the course, you’ll feel confident in your ability to deliver effective supervision, whether one-to-one or in groups, ensuring it benefits both supervisees and their clients.

Working with Psychosis - Key Knowledge and Skills for Everyday Interactions

 3-day course

This course examines and teaches the skills that are fundamental to working with anybody who is prone to episodes of psychosis. Skills such as how to engage, how to talk within the person's belief system, how to use Socratic dialogue and the 'floating of ideas', what is and what is not 'collusion', and more. It looks at using these skills in formal one-to-one sessions and also in informal situations.

Working 1:1 with Psychosis – Assessment, Formulation and Intervention.

 3-day course (2-day version also available)

This course is for professionals involved in formal one-to-one therapy with patients who are prone to episodes of psychosis and covers how to plan and deliver individually tailored programs of therapy to treat delusions and hallucinations. It views CBT as having a complementary relationship with medication. It is important that all but the very most skilled practitioners attend Course 1 before attending this course.

CFT Essentials (Compassion-Focused Therapy).

 3-day course

CFT Essentials introduces Compassion-Focused Therapy in a way that enables delegates to understand it and incorporate it into their clinical repertoire. The approach particularly helps clients develop compassion towards themselves, using specific therapeutic techniques alongside an understanding of how the brain and emotional systems operate. The course covers both the theory and practical skills of CFT, making the approach accessible without requiring delegates to practice exclusively as compassion-focused therapists.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

Explore APT’s extensive range of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) training, from CBT Essentials through to extended and specialist training. APT has been providing CBT training since the early 1980s, helping professionals develop practical skills they can apply in their clinical work. Courses cover core CBT alongside its application to areas including anxiety, depression, trauma, substance misuse and offending behavior.

Dialectical Behavior Therapy

Develop your knowledge and skills in Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) through five key training routes, from DBT Essentials and DBT for Adolescents through to skills-development groups, extended training and the DBT Masterclass. Designed for professionals using DBT individually or within full DBT services, the training covers essential principles, practical techniques and more advanced applications of the approach.

Trauma and PTSD

Explore evidence-based training covering trauma, PTSD and trauma-informed approaches, from understanding the impact of psychological trauma through to effective clinical interventions. Courses support professionals working directly with trauma as well as organizations seeking to ensure their wider services are delivered in ways that recognize trauma and minimize the risk of further harm.

Suicide Awareness, Prevention, and Treatment

Develop the knowledge and confidence to recognize suicide risk, respond appropriately and support effective prevention and treatment. Courses range from increasing general awareness through to more detailed risk assessment, management and clinical intervention, supporting professionals who may encounter suicidal thoughts or behavior across a wide variety of mental health settings.

Crises, Intervening in

Develop the knowledge and practical skills needed to respond effectively when people are experiencing a mental health crisis. Training brings together assessment, risk management and intervention, helping professionals make appropriate decisions, communicate effectively and provide useful support in situations where timely, confident and well-judged action is particularly important.

Psychosis

Explore a range of training for professionals working with people experiencing psychosis. Courses cover psychological approaches, practical interventions and recovery-focused work, helping delegates better understand psychotic experiences and develop effective ways of supporting clients, their families and wider care systems across different stages of treatment and recovery.

Children and Adolescents

Explore training designed specifically for professionals supporting children, adolescents and their families. Courses cover a range of clinical needs and approaches, helping practitioners develop the knowledge, confidence and practical skills required to understand younger clients, assess their needs and deliver effective interventions across childhood and adolescence.

The RAID® Approach

Discover the RAID® approach to working with disturbed and challenging behavior, attended by over 20,000 professionals. Rather than simply responding to challenging behavior when it occurs, RAID® focuses on tackling it at source by identifying and nurturing positive behaviors to displace it. The result is a clear, practical and consistently positive approach that can be adopted across whole teams and services.

Diplomas

APT Diplomas provide structured programmes for professionals wishing to develop broader expertise within a specialist area. By completing a defined combination of relevant APT courses, delegates can build their knowledge and skills progressively while working towards recognition across areas including psychological therapies, child and adolescent mental health, crisis and risk, and forensic practice.

Substance Misuse

Develop the knowledge and practical skills needed to work effectively with alcohol and substance misuse. Training covers assessment, understanding and responding to substance misuse, alongside evidence-based approaches including Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Motivational Interviewing. Courses help professionals develop structured, practical interventions that support clients in making meaningful and sustainable changes.

Schema Therapy Essentials

 3-day course

Schema Therapy has become one of the most influential developments in psychological therapy over the past two decades. Originally developed to work with complex and long-standing difficulties — including personality disorder, chronic depression, trauma, and entrenched relationship problems — it is now widely used across mental health services with a broad range of clients. This Schema Therapy Essentials course provides a clear, practical, and clinically grounded introduction to the model, designed specifically for qualified and experienced mental health professionals.

Autism and Neurodiversity Awareness

 6-hour course

APT’s Autism and Neurodiversity Awareness course provides a practical introduction to autism and the wider field of neurodiversity, including ADHD, dyslexia, dyspraxia and Tourette’s. Designed for professionals who may not specialise in this area, it explores how different ways of thinking, perceiving and processing information can shape a person’s experience, and how changes in communication and environment can make a significant difference. You’ll develop greater confidence and skill in recognising and responding to neurodivergent individuals in your everyday work.

Motivational Interviewing, and how to use it effectively with Children and Adolescents

 3-day course

Based on Miller and Rollnick’s latest research, this course equips you with practical Motivational Interviewing techniques to help children and adolescents move from ambivalence to action. Learn evidence-based skills to support young people across issues including substance misuse, medication adherence, healthy eating, and mental and physical health challenges, helping them recognize their own reasons for change and build their motivation to act.

Psychosis and Substance Misuse – Assessment and Integrated Interventions

 3-day course

Leaning on CBT, Motivational Interviewing and the Stages of Change, this course advocates an integrated approach to Dual Diagnosis in 6 clear steps. You have a chance to practice and examine these steps with prepared cases. Where appropriate it also examines practical issues such as the inter-relationship between substance misuse services and mental health services and discusses how to develop their working together.

The BITS™ Course

 2-day course

Professionals working in mental health and related services spend considerable time talking with patients during everyday interactions, yet opportunities for therapeutic progress can be missed. The BITS™ approach shows how informal conversations can become powerful therapeutic interventions, providing practical psychological frameworks that help staff turn routine interactions into therapeutic exchanges and embed psychological therapy into everyday care, while keeping conversations natural and informal.

Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT)

 3-day course

This course concentrates much more on Mindfulness than CBT. It explains why Mindfulness meditation can help people with recurrent depression, considers the published evidence and NICE guidelines, but spends most of the time on experiential exercises and discussion. With only a small amount of lecture input, the focus is on understanding Mindfulness, developing the ability to practice Mindfulness meditation, and learning how to convey it effectively to others.

CBT for OCD

 2-day course

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder usually takes over the sufferer's life, and it is the behavioral element of CBT that come to the fore in treating it. An obsession is where the person has a fixed idea that is distressing (e.g. that their hands are contaminated and will lead to a serious illness or death) and a compulsion to perform a particular behavior (in this case, probably to wash their hands). This often has a ritualistic nature to it (e.g. to wash 3 times) and the whole syndrome can devastate a person's life both in terms of time, relationships, and finances. This course covers the Cognitive Behavioral Therapy solutions to OCD.

Graded Exposure Therapy

 1-day course

The course covers how to apply exposure therapy – especially graded exposure – and what conditions it works well for. It also covers the pitfalls to avoid, and the conditions it usually doesn’t work well for. Those who attend the course receive a certificate to verify the fact, and accreditation that allows them access to any resources associated with the course.

IPT Essentials (Interpersonal Psychotherapy)

 3-day course

Interpersonal psychotherapy (IPT) is a brief psychological therapy for depression that has also been applied to other areas of mental health. Its goals are practical: to reduce symptoms and improve social functioning. Supported by a strong evidence base and recommended in NICE guidelines, this course focuses primarily on how to deliver IPT, or incorporate its ideas and methods into your existing practice, familiarising mental health practitioners with the practical application of IPT.

CBT with Non-Suicidal Self-Injury: There Must Be A Better Way

 2-day course

Stopping self harm and replacing it with something better. The title of this course captures the philosophy behind it. Self-harm, though inexplicable to anyone who has never felt the urge to harm themselves, normally serves a very clear purpose. The secret of success is, therefore, to identify that purpose and achieve it in a less traumatic way. Simple in theory, far from simple in practice, this course examines exactly how to achieve it successfully.

The APT Diploma in Psychological Therapies

 90 hours

'The APT Diploma in Psychological Therapies' provides 90 hours of training, leading to Level 4 APT Registration. Attend as an individual or we can bring the training to you for a fixed fee, to eliminate travel and expenses costs, and to ensure you get a supportive group addressing the same material.

The APT Diploma in Child & Adolescent Mental Health.

 90 hours

'The APT Diploma in Working with Children and Adolescents' provides 90 hours of training, leading to Level 4 APT Registration. Attend as an individual or we can bring the training to you for a fixed fee, to eliminate travel and expenses costs, and to ensure you get a supportive group addressing the same material.

The APT Diploma for Working in Secure Psychiatric and Forensic Settings

 90 hours

This Diploma provides 90 hours of training, leading to Level 4 APT Registration. Attend as an individual or we can bring the training to you for a fixed fee, to eliminate travel and expenses costs, and to ensure you get a supportive group addressing the same material.

The APT Diploma in Working with Crisis or Risk

 90 hours

'The APT Diploma in Working with Crisis or Risk' provides 90 hours of training, leading to Level 4 APT Registration. Attend as an individual or we can bring the training to you for a fixed fee, to eliminate travel and expenses costs, and to ensure you get a supportive group addressing the same material.

The APT Diploma for Working with Psychosis.

 90 hours

The APT Diploma for Working with Psychosis provides 90 hours of training, leading to Level 4 APT Registration. We bring the training to you for a fixed fee, to eliminate travel and expenses costs, and to ensure you get a supportive group addressing the same material.

The APT Diploma in Working with common mental health diagnoses

 90 hours

'The APT Diploma in Working with common mental health diagnoses' provides 90 hours of training, leading to Level 4 APT Registration. Attend as an individual or we can bring the training to you for a fixed fee, to eliminate travel and expenses costs, and to ensure you get a supportive group addressing the same material.

Assessment: how to ask the right questions

 1-hour CPD

In this Assessment Module, you'll learn or re-learn how to achieve one of the fundamental starting points of effective therapy: how to conduct consistent, subjective assessment of the key factors affecting each patient. This is an essential skill in any therapeutic endeavor and is too often 'glossed over' in the often unrealistic hope that even the most distressed patients will easily tell us just what is the matter. In reality, a skilled assessment provides hope for both the patient and for us.

Functional Analysis: most ‘problems’ serve a purpose, and revealing that purpose can be the key to success.

 1-hour CPD

In this module from the APT, we talk about the functions our patients' problems and behavior serve for them, what fallacies exist around for example 'attention-seeking behavior', and what to do once we have uncovered the functions of the behavior. We'll look at hunches and ABC Analysis, depression, behavior that has 'built-in' functionality, and the importance of verifying that there aren't underlying physical causes. Functional Analysis is a concept that has long been recognized by those working with 'challenging behavior' but in fact its relevance is much wider than that.

Case Formulation: making sense of the information you obtain.

 1-hour CPD

In this Case Formulation Module from the APT, you'll learn how to appraise the 6 P's of case formulation: the patient's problem, pre-disposing factors, precipitating factors, perpetuating factors, positive and protective factors and of course, the plan! It enables us to form a powerful strategy to organize the information we obtain in the assessment so we can help the patient as quickly and effectively as possible. And without it, we can be very much 'stumbling in the dark.'

Engaging Your Patients: if you don’t do this then everything else is wasted time.

 1-hour CPD

This course will take you through the most critical elements of engaging your patients. Even with the best tools and training in the world, if we can't properly connect with and engage our patients, we won't be able to help them. All therapists mean to engage with their patients but many have never really been taught how to do it, as though it is achieved simply through an act of will on the part of the therapist. In fact there are clear principled strategies for achieving it, and this is what you learn here.

Validation: a key component in therapy and relationships in general.

 1-hour CPD

‘Validation’ is a key skill for both your professional and personal life. In this module, we address the importance of validating the experiences and emotions of your patients, why it is such a good thing to do, and effective strategies for doing it well. Patients may find that some of the things they do appear to them to be 'stupid' or bizarre, and yet they rarely are; even the most unusual behaviors and emotions almost always 'make sense' when we look closely enough. It is wonderful for patients to be able to see this, and then work towards doing things - and ultimately feeling things - that work better for them.

Generating Insight and Motivation: energising the person to make changes

 1-hour CPD

In this distance learning module from the APT, you learn effective strategies to help your patients gain insight into their motivations and behaviors, by asking questions about and tracking feelings about their behavior. It is a wonderfully powerful and helpful action, because once we are all clear about those motivations and goals the person is well set up to start planning how best to achieve what they want - how to head in a life direction they value.

How to Structure a Therapy Session: one of the strongest pillars of quality control in therapy.

 1-hour CPD

In this distance learning module from the APT, we'll be looking at the different elements you should include in every therapy session. This allows you to provide the same quality of service to all of your patients, every time they see you and creates a structure they can use and rely on. Providing the same quality late on a Thursday afternoon as you do early on a Tuesday morning can be demanding, and having a solid structure for the therapy session is one of the strongest pillars we have in achieving this.

Problem Solving: the workhorse of therapy, reliable and effective - if you do it right

 1-hour CPD

Of all the clinical skills we try and master, problem-solving is one of the most important. In this module, you'll learn the steps involved in both intuitive and formal problem-solving. Fundamentally, most patients arrive to see us with a problem which they hope we will help them solve. So while it is wonderful to learn the latest and most advanced therapeutic approaches, nothing may be as effective as having a powerful problem-solving focus, with the skill to match.

Consultation Meetings: why you should set them up, and how to do it

 1-hour CPD

In this distance learning module from the APT, we talk about what consultation meetings are, why they're valuable, and how to structure them for maximum benefit. If you work with extremely distressing and demanding conditions - as many mental health professionals do - or work with very specific therapeutic approaches which need close adherence to their principles, then it is virtually certain that your work will be tremendously facilitated by well organized consultation meetings. This module shows you how to achieve just that.

Differentially Reinforcing Adaptive Behavior: a simple piece of jargon that can make or break therapy

 1-hour CPD

In this distance learning module from the APT, we talk about the practice of differentially reinforcing adaptive behavior, so your patients are encouraged to do more of what is helping them, and less of what isn't. Highlighted in DBT but relevant and effective in virtually every form of therapy, we look at why it works so well and what pot-holes there are to avoid; effectively we focus on how to 'water the flowers and not the weeds'.