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Course profile: Dual Diagnosis (Learning Disability & Mental Health)

Assessment, Planning & Intervention

This course is designed for staff at all levels in both Learning Disability and Mental Health services, with the view to explore some of the complex issues relating to Dual Diagnosis.

By the end of the workshop delegates will have broadened their professional networks and identified shared strategies of assessment, planning and intervention for service users with the dual diagnosis of Learning Disability and Mental Health.

Learning objectives:

By the end of the course learners should understand:

The need for a multi agency and multi disciplinary approach
What may be presented within the concept of Dual Diagnosis
Staffs responsibilities
A range of the issues that are faced by practitioners in response to a service user who presents with an actual or possible dual diagnosis
The processes of multi-disciplinary assessment, planning and intervention.
Practical strategies when supporting service users

Course content:
During group activities we will explore what is meant by and causations of the following:

What is a Learning Disability?
What is Mental Health?
What do we mean by Dual Diagnosis?

This will be followed by a presentation referring to definitions in the Mental Health act and the World Health International Classifications
The perspectives of mainstream Mental Health professionals and Learning Disability services
Exploration of the anxieties in working with this service user group (shared experiences)

  • Learning Disability conditions and syndromes:
  • Autism
  • Prader Willi
  • Fragile X
  • Down Syndrome
  • Aspergers
  • Mental Health conditions
  • Anxieties and Phobias
  • Depression
  • Schizophrenia
  • Manic Depression
  • Obsessive Compulsive Disorders
  • Eating Disorders
  • Dementia
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    Difficulties faced by professionals in diagnosing and what we can do to aid the effectiveness of a clear diagnosis.
    In aiding the process we will explore a range of assessment tools uses by professionals in the field of Mental Health and Behavioural Analysis.

  • PASS ADD
  • Mini PASS ADD
  • ABC Charts
  • Functional Analysis. Including: G, la Vinga. O’Niel. Durand.

    • We will explore therapeutic interventions ranging from medication, to cognitive behavioural therapy and many more. This section will also include the capacity to consent to treatment, confidentiality and the limitations of some therapies.

    Conflict between agencies and what we can do to enable a positive outcome in joint working.

    Training methods:

    • Teaching • Small group discussion • Exercises
    • Case Study • Flip Charts • OHP • Handouts

     

     

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