Voices, visions and unusual beliefs

10am to 4pm

Learning objectives:

By the end of this workshop you will be better able to:

Define psychosis and identify the range of clinical diagnoses that may involve these types of experience
Describe a range of explanatory models of psychosis including medical, psychological and cultural understandings
Identify the treatment pathways and NICE recommended psychological interventions for psychosis
Identify key practice issues for counsellors, psychotherapists and others in the helping role

Course content:

What is psychosis?
Voices, visions and other perceptual experiences explained
Unusual beliefs: what does it mean to be ‘delusional’?
Clinical diagnoses that feature psychosis
Causes of psychosis – explanatory models: medical, psychological and social, psychodynamic, cultural and spiritual perspectives
Psychosis as functional coping
Arriving at a shared understanding
Psychosis and risk: issues for assessment and management
NICE recommended treatment pathways
Medication: issues to be aware of, intended and unintended side effects
Critique of mainstream medical approaches to psychosis
Psychotherapies for psychosis: overview of the main therapeutic approaches to living with and recovering from psychosis including CBT, psychodynamic, family and systemic and integrative therapies
Coping with psychosis: essentials of self-care, planning for crisis
The role of peer support: Hearing Voices Network and Paranoia Network
Therapist self-care and effective use of supervision
Further reading and resources for psychosis

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