Professional Development

(Formerly ‘Common Mental Health Disorders’) This workshop will explore mental diagnoses and conditions, such as mood disorders, psychosis, and anxiety disorders.

Explore the fundamental skill set of Motivational Interviewing and learn how to assist people to engage in behaviour change.

Explore the most prevalent mental health conditions that older people experience, including dementia and depression.

Gain the skills to identify and de-escalate an agitated person while keeping yourself and others safe. Gain confidence in managing distress and aggression, and strategies for self-control.

Develop an understanding of significant ethics and boundaries concepts and explore an ethical dilemma problem-solving framework.

Develop your confidence in how to manage persons experiencing suicidal ideation and nonsuicidal self-injurious behaviour. Explore models and frameworks in your setting.

An advanced workshop for professionals with some level of training and experience in screening and managing youth and adults with self-injurious and suicidal behaviours.

An introduction to Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) and some of its key components. Develop an understanding of DBT skills and how they may be used in their daily practice with clients.

Further develop your Motivational Interviewing (MI) skill set with a focus on enhancing evoking and change talk.

This workshop provides an overview and update of current approaches to working clinically with people with Co-Existing Mental Health and Substance Use Problems (CEP).

Gain a basic understanding of anxiety and how it particularly relates to children and how to support parents and workers.

When working in the community and in private homes, we need to ensure everyone’s safety and be respectful. Develop your confidence and skills to decrease risk and manage difficult situations.

Develop your skills to effectively and clearly document your work in supporting people with mental health conditions.

Explore Te Tiriti o Waitangi with a lens of understanding and opportunities for healthcare practitioners and services in the broader healthcare setting.

This follow on workshop will focus on individual sessions and incorporating DBT skills as well as other DBT strategies into practice.

Explore alcohol and other drug (AOD) issues for individuals. Recognise problematic AOD use, understand the impacts and how to access support services in Canterbury. 

This workshop will provide an overview of traditional attachment theory as well as current approaches in relation to trauma in children and young people.

Explore current research on trauma, including complex trauma, and the affects on development for children and adolescents.

Explore and identify personality disorders, the aetiology of personality disorders including trauma and other life impacts, and key features of each personality disorder.

Explore synthetic drugs in today's society. Learn about longer term effects and gain tools and strategies around harm minimisation.