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If you would like to discuss a potential project or how we can support you and your team, please get in touch.
In collaboration with the Maudsley Centre for Child and Adolescent Eating Disorders, this intensive 4-day training provides an overview of the Family Therapy for Eating Disorders model (FT-AN), often referred to as the Maudsley Approach. This treatment model places strong emphasis on family working and involvement and supports the family to take a more active role in finding ways to overcome their child’s difficulties. The course also provides an understanding of other disordered eating diagnoses including Bulimia Nervosa.
Who is it for:
NHS professionals put forward by their service
Project Lead: Hannah Sherbersky
Attachment-Based Care programme
The Attachment-Based Care Milieu Programme (ABC Milieu Programme) works with administrators, doctors, occupational therapists, nurses, HCAs, psychologists, family therapists and support staff in inpatient treatment facilities. Sitting within the inpatient training programme, this will help the entire staff team to take a more psychotherapeutic approach to milieu management, in contrast to a behavioural management model. While managing safety is critical, an attachment-based lens, is grounded in trauma-informed care models.
The programme promotes an atmosphere of safety and trust for both patients and their families. Transparency and collaboration become key therapeutic elements. Staff challenge patients to identify unexplored trauma and disappointments while helping caregivers develop more emotion-focused, attachment promoting parenting skills.
Who is it for:
NHS professionals put forward by their service
Project Lead: Hannah Sherbersky
Often with experience, practitioners are expected to take on clinical supervisory roles often without any training or knowledge of supervision model. This training provides an opportunity to learn about what makes effective clinical supervision and to explore how professionals can embed this in their practice.
The training will support Devon Partnership Trust practitioners to be able to distinguish clinical supervision from caseload management supervision, develop awareness of some models of clinical supervision and the different tasks involved in effective supervision, understand the importance of the supervisory alliance and how to manage ruptures and understand how to structure supervision to optimise the experience for the supervisee and increase effectiveness.
Who is it for:
Devon Partnership Trust staff
Project Lead: Hannah Sherbersky
This is a three-day, hybrid, intensive course developed originally in collaboration with the University of Exeter’s Mood Disorders Centre which has a brief to research and provide treatment for depression according to NICE guidelines. Behavioural couples therapy is one of the recognised NICE therapies for the effective treatment of depression. Current research suggests people with depression may benefit most from both behavioural and empathic strategies, which the Exeter Model teaches. The Model represents a collation of the purely behavioural techniques indicated by the RCT manualised research informing the NICE recommendation and also the systemically informed techniques that are both behavioural and or empathic identified by the UK Expert Reference Group on Couple Competencies. The teaching draws from the Exeter Model manual and will include role play, case material, group work and DVD examples of clinical work within the Exeter Model.
Project Lead: Hannah Sherbersky
Working in conjunction with partners at Oliver and Co, this workshop series is designed to support Leaders working across the adult and children and young people’s (CYP) mental health system in Community Mental Health Teams, NHS Talking Therapies, and inpatient settings. It is anticipated the programme will facilitate the development of key leadership attributes contributing to service enhancement whilst enabling system-wide learning, networking, collaboration, and support.
The programme involves ten days of workshops and three half day action learning sets. Sessions are spread over a three-to-six-month period and combine three different modules.
Project Lead: Jonathan Parker
