Training Outline
Nov 22 - 10am -2pm Day 1 -Working through the three stages of hearing voices.
Nov 24 - 10am -2pm Day 2-Working through the three stages of paranoia.
Nov 29 - 10-11.30am Day 3-Maastricht Interview overview aims and outcomes.
Dec 2 - 9am-4pm Day 4-How to use the Maastricht Interview for hearing voices.
Dec 7 - 9am-4pm Day 5-How to use the Maastricht Interview for problematic thoughts, beliefs, and paranoia.
Dec 8 - 10am-4pm Day 6-How to use the information from the construct.
Learning Objectives
Day 1 Outcomes:
· Learn how to take a respectful and ethical approach to the experience of voice hearing.
· Understand the potential connection between trauma and voice hearing.
· Develop new ways of helping someone cope with their experience of hearing voices.
· Enable someone to move through the three stages of hearing voices (Startling, Organizational & Stabilization stage) to gain a better quality of life.
Day 2 Outcomes:
· Identify the role of fear in paranoia.
· Show the importance of identifying neglect.
· Understand how beliefs can be decoded when seen from the person’s perspective.
· Realize the differences in the three stages of paranoia from the three stages of hearing voices and how quickly a person cycle through the three stages.
· Attendees will be able to see the meaning in someone’s belief system and have more confidence in helping them work through them.
Day 3 Outcomes:
· The attendees will understand the Maastricht interviews and how the interviews will be conducted over the two days.
· The workshop also provides an opportunity for the workers to be able to understand the underlying principles of this approach and evidence of success by interviewing people who hear voices and have experiences of hearing voices, paranoia, and unusual beliefs, who have been through the interview process and developed a better understanding of their experiences.
Day 4 and Day 5 Outcomes: By completion of the workshop, delegates will have had the opportunity to demonstrate the ability to:
· To talk to a person about his/her experiences in a comprehensive way
· Have knowledge of different frames of reference about voice hearing and paranoia in relation to historical evidence and epidemiological data and be able to discuss these.
· Demonstrate competence in the use of the Maastricht interviews and recording the experiences of people who hear voices/paranoia.
· Understand the difference in role between the interviewer and the interviewee.
· The interviewer role needs an ability to extract information and be an objective listener, suppressing therapeutic ambitions or comments.
· Demonstrate competence to enable a person to make sense of their experiences in which the person feels interest, acceptance, and respect.
· Highlight the competence of teaching the main elements of recovery from the distress caused by hearing voices and paranoia.
· Demonstrate that the aim of the course for the professional is the difficult and sensitive task to change their attitude towards hearing voices and paranoia.
Day 6 How to use the Information from the Construct Outcomes:
· Take a respectful and ethical approach to the experience of voice hearing
· Understand the potential connection between trauma and voice hearing
· Develop new ways of talking to and working with those that experience hearing voices
· Identify the role of fear in paranoia
· The importance of identifying neglect
· How to decode beliefs
· Understand the three stages of paranoia and hearing voices
· Look at identifying the meaning in someone’s belief system and helping them work through them
· Understand the experiences from a metaphorical perspective
· Be confident to acknowledge and respond to disclosure of trauma
The workers will learn how to use a guided discovery approach and acknowledge how a person might be feeling when asked about their voices/paranoia and implement ways of coping with difficulties that the experiences may cause and to enable them to take more control of their lives.
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