Realizing Recovery and Social Inclusion™
Realizing Recovery and Social Inclusion™ is a 3-day course from the Association for Psychological Therapies (APT), a leading provider of accredited courses for professionals working in mental health and related areas in the USA.
It is the only Recovery Model training that is APT Delegate Accredited and uniquely combines built-in APT Registration with automatic access to our renowned post-course resources to help you support your clients. The course is available for teams and organizations and can be attended face-to-face or online. (2-day version also available.)
It can also be completed as part of the The APT Diploma for Working with Psychosis and you can attend one, some, or all of APT's Working with Psychosis courses, in whichever order is best for you.
Executive Summary:
'Recovery' is an idea that gets people understandably excited. For example, this is what the Sainsbury Centre for mental health said:
"Recovery is an idea whose time has come. At its heart is a set of values about a person's right to build a meaningful life for themselves, with or without the continuing presence of mental health symptoms. Recovery is based on ideas of self-determination and self-management. It emphasizes the importance of 'hope' in sustaining motivation and supporting expectations of an individually fulfilled life."
And here is a similarly inspiration quote from Roberts, G & Wolfson, P. in Advances in Psychiatric Treatment: “Redefinition of recovery as a process of personal discovery, of how to live (and live well) with enduring symptoms and vulnerabilities opens the possibility of recovery to all ….This reconceptualisation is personally empowering, raising realistic hope for a better life alongside whatever remains of illness and vulnerability”.
What Realizing Recovery and Social Inclusion aims to do is to present you with a similarly inspiring presentation that educates, develops skills, and motivates you to use them enthusiastically in your own work.
Day one: The History and Philosophy.
- Definition and Description. Recovery may be seen as more of a philosophy than a model, requiring that "we regain personal power and a valued place in our communities."
- The Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health document: Making Recovery a Reality. Andresen et al's five stages of recovery. The importance of work and employment. Shepherd's ten top tips, 2007.
- Components of the process of recovery. Having hope; Re-establishment of a positive identity; Building a meaningful life; Taking responsibility and control. The importance of optimism.
- Social Inclusion. "Increasingly, services aim to go beyond traditional clinical care and help patients back into mainstream society, re-defining recovery to incorporate quality of life - a job, a decent place to live, friends and a social life."
- Professional Qualities. All the sophisticated concepts, and all the literature in the world, are as nothing unless the professional has the right personal qualities.
- The relationship. Roberts & Wolfson (2004) have characterized this as a shift from staff who are seen as remote, in a position of expertise and 'authority', to people who behave more like a personal coach or trainer: 'On tap, not on top.' Repper & Perkins.
- Borg & Kristiansen's (2004) key characteristics: Openness; Collaboration as equals; A focus on the individual's inner resources; Reciprocity; A willingness "to go the extra mile".
Day Two: 'Operationalising' the Recovery model … techniques to make it happen.
- Positive questions. A positive question has two key qualities: It focuses on positive behaviour, not negative. So long as you can answer it, the answer will necessarily eliminate the negative behaviour.
- Radical Validation Plus. People who are good at validating are liked by their friends and influential with their clients.
- Socratic Dialog. Asking questions that help a person to think things through the way they want to.
- Planning and achieving a good Future. We need not be so perturbed about our past that it disturbs our present, nor so wrapped up in the present that we neglect our future. The RAID Ladder of Achievement.
- Decisional Balance. Helping the person to decide what they want, and to act on their decision. Putting forward your own suggestions. Encouragement and support. The two traps.
- The role of a written action-plan.
- Practical Support. Advice, 'sounding-board', and emotional support are all helpful, but so is practical support. And service users value it very highly.
- Noticing positive results is good but not good enough. We also need to know what to do to help people achieve what they want again, and again.
Day Three: Constructing a full Recovery care plan and measuring progress and results.
- Measures of Recovery. Recovery is more than philosophy, it is about results. To have clear evidence of progress helps both the service-user and the professional. In this section we review four measures.
- Producing a Recovery-Oriented Care Plan. Applying the Recovery principles to producing a Care Plan for a prepared case example.
- Producing a Recovery-Oriented Care Plan, 2. Applying the Recovery principles to producing a usable Care Plan for a service-user you know.
What this course will do for you:
- You will have the satisfying feeling of knowing about 'Recovery': its history and philosophy. Knowing what others say about it and how it came about. Knowing that it' not just about 'cure' but about leading a rewarding life, and social inclusion too, and just what that means and how it can be achieved.
- You will know which of your own personal qualities are important, and which elements of 'professionalism' are perhaps unhelpful in the Recovery context. You will have a clear concept for how to collaborate in producing recovery.
- You will know how to generate optimism and helpful action for those you work with.
- You will know how to increase the 'can-do' spirit in others in a way that makes them feel good about you and, more importantly, about themselves.
- You will know how to help people 'think things through' so they really know which direction they want to head in and are keen to get there. You will know how to help people 'stay on the track they want' and to be hopeful about the future.
- You will be able to help people form a real plan that they can act on and be pleased they did.
- You will know how to help people genuinely, realistically and ethically, when they hit difficulties.
- You will know how to produce a proper, down to earth, Recovery-oriented care plan.
- You will know that Recovery is more than a philosophy, it is about real results, and you will know how to measure those results in a way that all concerned can see them and be pleased and impressed by them.
Who should attend:
Everybody who works in mental health and related areas.
What you receive as a result of attending the training:
You will be registered as having attended the course, thereby gaining APT Registration Level 1, and receive a certificate to this effect. The registration gives you access to online resources associated with the course and access to the online exam if you wish to uprate your APT Registration to Level 2 (note, the exam is inbuilt into the 'online anytime' version of the course).
Your record of attendance lasts indefinitely, whilst your APT Registration Level lasts for 3 years from the date of completion and is renewable.
Your registration is given value by the fact of over 150,000 people having attended APT training. See APT Registration for full details.
Booking this training is easy...Booking Options... for individuals or small groups For teams and organizations:
Live and interactive online course, delivered via Zoom or Teams exclusively for your team or organization. Price: $6,460 for a group of up to 15 people (price includes a workbook for every delegate, posted to one address, or a PDF version can be provided). Extra delegates $420 per person. Option 2: 'Train the Trainer': If you or a colleague are a senior professional (e.g. consultant psychologist) and have a talent for communication and teaching, then you are welcome to apply to become an APT-accredited tutor. You could then tutor the course in your own organization, under license. his is not only a highly appropriate use of senior professionals, but it also saves your organization the tutor-component of the fee each time you run it or your chosen modules (50% of the 'Online Live and Exclusive' fee, regardless of whether the course is held Face-to-Face or Online). To see the full benefits of this and to see whether you are eligible, click the button:
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APT prides itself on the feedback we receive about our courses. Below are just some of the great comments the Realizing Recovery and Social Inclusion™ course has received.
"Amazing, the best training I have ever received in the NHS. A passionate presenter who has inspired me. Thank you.”
“An inspiring workshop that reinvigorated my belief in the recovery approach. All three days were an amazing opportunity to not only recognize how much of our practice currently accords with the model but also to draw upon the presenter's impressive knowledge and enthusiasm. Thank you.”
