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Single-Session Therapy Course

Single-Session Therapy, for maximum 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. 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:

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

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.

Your registration lasts indefinitely, and your accreditation lasts for 3 years and is renewable by sitting an online refresher .

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


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Booking Options...

 for individuals or small groups

 for teams and organizations




For individuals or small groups:


NEW - Option 1: Online Anytime course (12-hours CPD):

An engaging and relevant online course that can be started and accessed at any time and completed at your own pace, taking breaks to assimilate and practice the skills as they are introduced.

Price: $230 USD 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.

Guaranteed completion; full refund if you don’t complete for any reason. 

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Option 2: Online Live course (6-hours CPD):

Live and interactive online course, Open for you to attend from your home or workplace. Choose from one of the following dates to attend:

  3 September 2024
  25 March 2025

Price: $245 USD per person. The fee covers: tuition, PDF workbook, certification, registration, and accreditation. Times: 10am - 4pm (Eastern Time) daily, including 45 minutes for lunch.

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For teams and organizations:


NEW - Option 1: Online Anytime course (12-hours CPD):

Engaging and relevant online course, your colleagues attend from home or workplace at times that suit.

Price: $230 USD per person (completion guarantee, for attendees who don’t complete for whatever reason, you can transfer the training to other staff members).

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Option 2: Online Live and Exclusive course (6-hours CPD):

Live and interactive online course, delivered via Zoom or Teams* exclusively for your team or organization.

Price: $4,375* for a group of up to 15 people, Extra delegates $260 per person. (price includes a workbook for every delegate, posted to one address, or a PDF version can be provided).

*We standardly deliver courses via Zoom (which is recommended). If you would prefer to use Microsoft Teams, there is an additional charge of $130 USD per day.

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Option 3: Face-to-Face Onsite course (6-hours CPD):

We bring the course and tutor to you for a fixed fee. Suitable for teams and organizations.

Price: $6,730 (plus tutor travel and accommodation expenses) for a group of up to 15 people. Extra delegates: $410 per person. Workbooks for every delegate are included in this price.

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Option 4: '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 - or your chosen modules from it - 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).

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APT Accreditation

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

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


Presentation: 92%


Relevance: 91%



Written Feedback

Reviews.

APT prides itself on the feedback we receive about our courses. Below are just some of the great comments APT courses have received.

"Brilliant. Approachable, clear, kept me motivated for 3 days (an impossibility!). Best course I've been on in 18 years on the job."

"I feel that this has been the best training course I have been on so far in my professional career in terms of its relevance to my current practice and enhancement of my existing skills."

"I really enjoyed this course, absolutely the most impressive and useful training I have received in the 11 years working for the Trust."