Facilitators:

David Manchester is a Consultant Neuropsychologist and Clinical Psychologist with over 14 years experience working in neurobehavioural rehabilitation, psychiatry and learning disability services. He has published on various aspects of assessment, treatment and training in neurobehavioural rehabilitation. He provides regular training workshops in rehabilitation psychology in the U.K. and in Australia. He is a member of the Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers.

Stephen Rollnick was a practising clinical psychologist in the NHS for 16 years and is now a teacher and researcher on the subject of communication and behaviour change. He has written books with colleagues on motivational interviewing and Health Behaviour Change and has a special interest in challenging consultations in hospital and primary care settings. He has published widely in scientific journals and has taught practitioners in many countries and continents.

Who the course is for?
The course is for all staff who work with persons with cognitive difficulties and whose work involves behaviour change. It is applicable to nurses, physicians, forensic service workers, social workers, case managers, residential support workers and allied health clinicians.

Background to the course
Traditional rehabilitation approaches often assume that a person is both motivated and ready to change behaviour. When a person is not motivated to do so it is often thought he or she needs more information to bring about such change. If this fails a client might be thought of as poorly motivated or ‘lacking insight.’ Yet this is often not so. Infact advice giving can be counter-productive in rehabilitation. Also people in general can be fully aware of a need to change their behaviour and still not do so.

When cognitive functioning is an issue, many other factors can further impact upon the ability of rehabilitation staff to help facilitate change.

What the course offers
The course takes a practical look at how to engage and work collaboratively with clients in cognitive rehabilitation, be this in the community, a hospital or a secure setting. The focus is on teaching participants those skills that can significantly increase client engagement in therapy and strengthen adaptive behaviour change over time.

A major emphasis is on integrating skills and techniques from Motivational Interviewing with approaches derived from neuropsychological rehabilitation and social psychology. The programme looks at how to work productively with cognitive difficulties including reduced mental flexibility, poor memory and impulsivity. Attention is also given to those cognitive and motivational factors that are often well maintained in cognitive rehabilitation. Highly relevant demonstrations of how these strengths can be built upon in therapy are included.

Learning Outcomes
By the end of the course participants will have a greater understanding of:

• The stages of change model
• The difference between traditional counselling approaches and Motivational Interviewing
• How to increase the likelihood that therapy is collaborative
• How to structure 'motivational' sessions in cognitive rehabilitation
• How to improve the effectiveness of feedback
• The importance of planning and structure in aiding behaviour change

Number of participants
The course has limited places. Throughout both days there are handouts to reinforce key points.

Booking
To book a place on the workshop please ring Nicki Lee on 44 (0)161 772 0034, or email: creativeconferences@btinternet.com