The RAID® Course. The positive approach to working with disturbed and challenging behavior.
The RAID® course is an excitingly positive approach to working with disturbed and challenging behavior, to eradicate it at source. It is a leading positive approach for working with disturbed and challenging behavior and over 20,000 professionals have attended it.
It is the only challenging behavior 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 - or you or your colleagues can be trained to roll out the course in your organization under license. This course can also be completed as part of The APT Diploma in Psychological Therapies.
Executive Summary:
The 3-day RAID® course is 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.
As well as providing training in the RAID® approach, APT gives annual awards for excellent work with disturbed and challenging behavior, and also recognizes RAID® Centres of Excellence
The RAID® Course aims:
- A clear, positive, philosophy and technique for working effectively with disturbed and challenging behaviors.
- Provides interventions with a clear sense of purpose, and benefits to everybody.
- Shows how reinforcing key aspects of a client's behavior can eliminate disturbed and challenging behaviors.
- Demonstrates how to reinforce behavior effectively.
- How to make social reinforcement work. How to design formalized yet 'friendly' reinforcement systems. Avoiding reinforcement 'traps'.
- Knowing the 4 key types of appropriate behaviors, and how to spot them.
- Why we are best to play down disruptive behavior.
- Why punishment usually doesn't work.
- What to do when disruptive behavior cannot be ignored. For example, when it is damaging or life-threatening to other clients or staff, crucial non-physical interventions.
- How to avoid people 'pushing against us' when we are trying to influence them and how to guide their behavior for the better - for their benefit and for the benefit of those around them.
- How good rules or 'boundaries' for behavior are productive and energising while bad ones are a short-cut to endless trouble. What makes the difference between good and bad.
- What to do when clients exhibit so many challenging behaviors that it is difficult to know where to start.
- What to do when it seems that some sort of punishment is unavoidable.
- How to create and establish a proper RAID Care Plan that you and your colleagues can use.
Who should attend The RAID® Course:
This course is suitable for 'whole teams' working with serious disturbed and challenging behavior from adults or children and adolescents: it is important to have everyone 'singing from the same songsheet' when working with disturbed and challenging behavior, and that is what The RAID® Course does.
Attenders come from a variety of work settings, but principally are working with:
- Adults suffering from mental illness in 'challenging behavior' units and psychiatric intensive care units.
- Children and young people in residential or domestic settings.
- People with learning difficulties.
- People in secure units.
- People with forensic background, either in residential units or in the community.
Note: When we bring the course to you, the tutor is selected as having the same specialist background as those attending the course.
In 3-days you will cover a great deal:
- Why it is so important to have 'a philosophy of care'. Why (a) punishment and (b) extinction don't work. How the RAID® approach is radically different from both the above.
- What is meant by... 'routine green behavior'? ... 'extra-ordinary green behavior'? and ... behavior that is 'green, but not quite the shade of green I had in mind'? Why it is important to know.
- When a professional says they have 'tried everything' with a client, what powerful category of influence have they usually failed to try?
- How some professionals discourage green behavior when they think they are encouraging it.
- How to influence people at the deepest levels of their brain.
- Why working on clients' problems often results in exaggerating those problems, and what to do instead.
- Thousands of people are victims of 'the punishment spiral'. How does this come about and how can we reverse the spiral?
- How to have clients behave to their best limits, without necessarily even addressing their disturbed and challenging behavior directly!
- What's so special about you that makes you good to work with disturbed and challenging behavior. There is an answer!
- Rules and 'boundaries' are an important, if rather sterile concept. How can you bring them to life in a way that both clients and professionals welcome?
- What makes the difference between standard criticism and constructive criticism, and how can we keep our criticism constantly constructive and, therefore, effective?
- Why is this statement probably untrue and how should we capitalize on the real truth of the situation: "We find that whenever Sue harms herself she's had an argument with her boyfriend just before: every time they have an argument, she harms herself."?
- What should we do when we come across clients who exhibit so little appropriate behavior that they are very difficult to work with?
- We need to balance the client's past, present and future. But - if you're working with disturbed and challenging behavior - which is most important? Why? How can you build on that?
- Often, the disturbed and challenging behavior is to communicate something. How can we tell what, and how should we respond then? Possibly more important, what should we not do?
- What other functions may the behavior be serving? "The challenging behavior is not the problem, it is the patient's solution; the real problem is to find a better solution."
- What can you do when disturbed and challenging behavior happens? We have two good options, but it's important to chose the right one!
- Practise what you preach. How to RAID® yourself.
- Disturbed and challenging behavior is normally very wearing both for the client and for the professional. How to cope with the 'feelings' side of things.
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What your team can do to immediately transform its impact.
What The RAID® Course will do for you:
- You will have a clear philosophy on how to view disturbed and challenging behavior. A philosophy which allows you to intervene positively and effectively to minimize its occurrence.
- You will see how that philosophy applies not just in your work, but in your private life too. After all, it is a philosophy, not just a technique.
- You will gain a clearer perspective on what you already do, seeing more clearly why some actions you take work, and others don't.
- You will see that it is possible to have a positive approach to working with disturbed and challenging behavior, an approach which is both clear and effective.
- You will know how to work out the function of problem behavior, and to help find a better way of achieving that same function.
- You will be better at reinforcing others, you will be more aware of the positive actions and traits they display.
- You will know why consideration of the future is so important in general, and especially in this area.
- You will be able to ask positive, constructive questions, ones which have answers which nurture and develop people rather than focusing on their 'problems'.
- You will know when an issue needs addressing, and be better at addressing it.
- You will be able to use specific techniques for resolving dangerous or threatening situations.
- You will be able to construct a powerful positive RAID Care Plan, and put it into practice.
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 access to the online exam if you wish to uprate your APT accreditation to Level 2.
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 training from the Association for Psychological Therapies. See APT accreditation for full details.
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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 ten runnings of this course, which are updated periodically.
Face-to-Face
Presentation: 96%
Relevance: 95%
Online Live
Presentation: 96%
Relevance: 98%
Reviews.
APT prides itself on the feedback we receive about our courses. Below are just some of the great comments The RAID® Course has received.
"One of the best presented, organized and thought-out courses I have been on. I speak as a course participant but also as a trainer of 20 years experience."
"I really enjoyed this course, absolutely the most impressive and useful training I have received in the 11 years working for the Trust."
