Short Course: Integrative Multimodal Practice with Troubled Adolescents - a two day introduction
The next two courses will take place in London on 9-10 Oct, and 4-5 December. The course fee is £400.
Aim
Provides an introduction to Integrative Multimodal Practice (IMP), which is an innovative manualized approach to outreach work with hard-to-reach multi-problem adolescents. IMP uses an attachment framework and proposes a practitioner specifically trained to work with multiple treatment modalities, bridging many of the ‘dis-integrative’ forces that these patients and their families face, supported by a robust supervisory framework. Theory and basic tools from this approach are introduced.
Who may be interested
Frontline practitioners and professionals working with adolescents who have mental health and other comorbid difficulties and are in crisis. The course is suitable for people who are interested in developing specialist therapeutic skills in this area - child psychotherapists, psychiatrists, psychologists, therapists, social workers, youth workers, psychiatric nurses and allied professions.
The model
The training is based on the therapeutic model developed by Prof Peter Fonagy, Dr Mary Target, Dr Eia Asen, Dr Peter Fuggle, Dr Dickon Bevington, Rabia Malik and Neil Dawson (Anna Freud Centre, Marlborough Family Service, Islington CAMHS and Cambridge CAMHS). It is written up in Asen, E. & Bevington, D. (2007): “Barefoot practitioners: a proposal for a manualized, home-based Adolescent Crisis Intervention Project” in: Baruch, G., Fonagy, P. & Robins, D. (eds): Reaching the Hard to Reach. (Chichester: Wiley) and has been presented at National and International conferences.
Programme
Each training day will include seminars and practical group exercises. For all aspects of the two days the emphasis will be on using real case histories, brought by the trainees themselves, so that discussions are directed towards effective interventions in the ‘real world’.
Day 1 will focus on:
i. The theoretical framework for the intervention
ii. An exploration of the important contributions and expertise available from multi-disciplinary fields, and
iii. The problems faced by existing practitioners in the field when this expertise does not ‘marry up’.
iv. Tools for identifying potential points of such dis-integration, and for sequencing possible outreach interventions will be introduced, along with
v. The framework for deploying a single multimodal practitioner supported by powerful meta-level supervisory support.
Day 2 will concentrate more on the organisational aspects of this way of working – particularly from the practitioner’s point of view. Topics covered will include:
i. How to develop support for this mode of working within the host organisation (Trust, etc),
ii. Supervising work with adolescents and families in crisis,
iii. Risk management,
iv. Managing inter-professional conflict, and
v. Innovative uses of collaborative record keeping (patient and practitioner) to increase the integration of therapeutic input.
The Trainers
The training will be led by Dr Peter Fuggle and Dr Dickon Bevington. Dr Fuggle is a Psychologist and Service manager in Islington CAMH, and Dr Bevington is a Consultant in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry based in Cambridge and at the Anna Freud Centre. Both have extensive experience of operating and delivering innovative outreach programmes for hard-to-reach adolescents, and both are experienced trainers and teachers, with a lively and interactive style.
Accreditation
At the end of the course participants will be issued with an Anna Freud Centre certificate of participation.
Bookings: Will be allocated on a first come, first served basis.
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To reserve a place on the December course, please click here
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