Different Worlds - Hallucinations & Delusions
Date: 27 September 2010
Duration: One Day
Duration: 10am-4.30pm
Held at: ROCC, Fairways House, Mount Pleasant Road, Southampton, SO14 0QB
Suitable for: This course is ideal for anyone who is working with service users with severe mental health issues.
Course Aims and Objectives
By the end of the course, participants will:
- Have a better understanding of different types of hallucinations and their origins
- Have learned about a range of strategies to help service users cope with auditory hallucinations
- Know how to respond to service users in a psychotic crisis
- Have a greater awareness of different types of delusions and paranoid states
- Have a greater awareness of different approaches to the treatment of hallucinations, delusions and paranoia
Trainers for this course
Dr Ian Bourne
Has worked in mental health since 1979 – in both psychiatric and voluntary agencies. He was principal training consultant for The Richmond Fellowship for nine years before starting his own independent training company which specialises in suicide and self harm, trauma and dangerous behaviour.