EVENT OVERVIEW

Essential knowledge and skills

About the event

This is a Hospice Education and Learning Partnership (HELP) Course with

St Christopher’s Education is pleased to offer this three day foundation programme which has been developed by our CBT specialists.

This three day course provides foundation level understanding of CBT and equips participants with the knowledge and understanding required to underpin new skills to incorporate into everyday practice.

Participants will gain a greater understanding of the role CBT has in reducing and managing distress, anxiety, panic and depression. The course will also cover CBT approaches which enhance the management of physical symptoms such as breathlessness, pain and fatigue. Training will involve a combination of presentation and discussion, demonstration and experiential learning.

• Topics
• Who is it for
• Course tutors

• What will I learn?

  During the course, all participants will:

  • Learn about the links between emotions, thoughts, feelings and the physical condition and the purpose of assessing problems using this framework
  • Be encouraged to develop and apply this new knowledge in a series of CBT related activities linked to their clinical experience
  • Consider and identify patients and carers who may benefit from CBT.

  By completing the accreditation process participants will:

  • Demonstrate foundation level knowledge of the CBT model and its applications in long term or life-limiting conditions and at the end of life

• Who is it for?

  This course will benefit any professional working in a health care setting with people with long-term or life-limiting conditions or who are approaching the end of life.

  The course is particularly useful for those working with people with cancer, heart failure, advanced respiratory disease, continence or neurological conditions and would be most suited to:

  • senior and junior doctors and nurses
  • psychologists
  • social workers
  • counsellors
  • allied health professionals
  • educationalists.

  Previous knowledge of CBT is not required to attend this course, however prior reading around the subject will prove beneficial.

• Course tutors

  Led by:

  

  Maaike Vandeweghe Programme Lead, St Christopher's

  Maaike graduated from the KATHO (Roeselare, Belgium) in 2002 as a general and mental health nurse. She started her professional career working on mental health A&E units in Belgium and then moved to Aruba (Caribbean) where she worked on a mental health A&E unit and the local prison. After working there for 3 years she moved back to Belgium and continued working in A&E and Nursing Homes. Maaike moved to the UK in 2006 and has since worked in Nursing Homes and the Greenwich & Bexley Community Hospice where she developed a palliative care service for care homes and then also developed and established an education department. Maaike has experience of working in palliative care, mental health, dementia, prison, care homes and education and has completed various post graduate education including a PGCert in Higher Education and a MA in Education.

  Maaike has previously been seconded to the University of Greenwich as a senior lecturer and is now seconded to develop an education partnership between the Greenwich & Bexley Community Hospice and St Christopher’s Hospice.

  Dr Stirling Moorey Consultant Psychiatrist

  Consultant Psychiatrist, South London and Maudsley Hospital; Co-founder, Institute of Psychiatry Cognitive Therapy Course (BABCP Accredited)