Workshop Aims

Below are brief details of the most popular workshops provided last year, if you wish to discuss in more detail a specific workshop or to see the full outlines please contact the office mailto:office@challenge-consultancy.co.uk

Awareness and Management of Stress

Course Aims -

  • To give participants an opportunity explore stress
  • To enable participants to identify where stress comes from and how it affects people
  • Explore personal and organisational responsibilities in supporting staff

 

Understanding the Importance of the Safe Administration of Medication

Course Aims -

  • For participants to understand the processes involved in administering medication including the legal implications of record keeping and personal accountability.

 

An Introduction to Dementia in People who have Learning Disabilities

Course Aims -

  • To enable participants to have a greater understanding of dementia and how it manifests itself in people who have learnign disabilities
  • How to manage behaviours associated with it

 

Mental Health Issues for People who have Learning Disabilities

Course Aims -

  • To give participants an opportunity explore mental ill-health for people who have learning disabilities.
  • To enable participants to empower themselves  and the people they support within the framework of mental health assessment processes.
  • Explore the importance of staff support

 

Approaches to Supporting People who have Learning Disabilities who may challenge

Course Aims -

  • To enable staff to understand the process of communication through behaviour
  • Provide strategies in order to support people positively, including a review of current range of tools for assessing behaviour which may challenge
  • To understand the importance of staff support and their own responsibilities within the work context

 

An Introduction to Using Intensive Interaction as a means of Engaging with People who have Learning Disabilities

Course Aims -

  • To introduce participants to the processes involved in successful engagement with people using Intensive Interaction

 

Supporting People who have Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (O.C.D)

Course Aims -

  • This course will give participants a thorough grounding in a whole range of issues in supporting people who have O.C.D

 

Supporting People with Acute & Enduring Mental Ill-Health

Course Aims -

  • To give participants an opportunity explore mental ill-health and understand the factors behind it
  • To enable participants to empower themselves and the people they support within the framework of mental health assessment processes.
  • Explore the importance of staff support

 

Supporting People who have Learning Disabilities and Complex Needs

Course Aims -

  • To consider the different areas of knowledge necessary, when supporting people who have complex needs e.g. intimate and personal care, communication and relationships

 

An Introduction to Supporting Individuals who have Schizophrenia

Course Aims -

  • Be able to identify contrasting perspectives on Schizophrenia, both medical and social
  • Have some understanding of the experience of people with Schizophrenia
  • Be able to identify when intervention may be required
  • Be aware of sign of recovery and progress
  • Have an opportunity to consider some practical support strategies to support service users

 

An Introduction to Autism

Course Aims -

  • To consider what Autism is and is not
  • To reflect on personal difficulties of supporting someone with the diagnosis.
  • To start to develop ways of reviewing our own practice to alleviate some of these difficulties.

 

An Introduction to the Recovery Model

Course Aims -

  • To give participants an opportunity to explore the concept of recovery alongside more traditional models of support within mental health services.