CARES & CARES+

Understanding innate emotional needs and resources; the three barriers to securing good mental health; planning a strategy which meets emotional needs. Gain the essential knowledge that underpins emotional wellbeing.

Four points of intervention when planning a strategy; unconscious patterns in the brain; understanding fight-or-flight; the language of emotion; the stress response; the relaxation response; the 3 ‘P’s’; challenging negative thinking and self-talk. Maximise the effectiveness of your interventions with up-to-date knowledge.

Understanding the mental health continuum in depth; gain knowledge of the signs, symptoms and medication; dispel myths and unhelpful beliefs; understand the overlap between mental health conditions. Gain profound insights about the mental health continuum and the REM State.

Learn about our emotional needs and resources; learn how to stay clear headed and maintain self-control when faced with angry or distressed people; understand what language to use and what language to avoid; improve their confidence and morale when communicating with members of the public; be better able to support team members facing difficult situations.

Bring your skills together into a coherent model; learn the framework to stay focussed with the most challenging clients; fine-tune rapport building skills; gather concrete information to boost change; set collaborative goals which meet needs; access your clients hidden resources; agree strategies which boost motivation for change.

Use the emotional needs and resources model to understand suicide and self-harm. Learn how you can offer support and act to keep people safe. Look at the links between suicide and self- harm and identify common misconceptions. Build your confidence in talking about and responding to suicide and self-harm. Reflect on your own self care.

The relationship between mental health and addiction; the three components of any successful strategy to overcome addiction; reward and punishment mechanisms in the brain; the motivational cycle of change; the addictive component of self-harm and eating disorders; why self-medicating is so prevalent. Become more effective at supporting co-morbid conditions.

Why ethical practice is rooted in emotional wellbeing; what an emotionally healthy organisation looks like; the role of pattern-matching and perception in shaping culture; the two types of context-blindness in organisations and how to avoid them Protect your organisation from context-blindness and toxic attitudes.

Understand the psychosis continuum and different forms of schizophrenia; learn about risk factors and symptoms by working with case studies; learn how psychosis and schizophrenia can prevent a person from meeting needs; understand how medication for psychotic illness works and potential side-effects.

Understand how the diagnosis arises and its signs and symptoms; help with the challenges clinicians and service users experience; learn how personality disorder survival instincts shape thought and behaviour; learn how to address damaged resources and promote recovery; understand how to spot ‘splitting’ and protect yourself from its emotional impact.