Over recent years research has established the need to consider the most appropriate skills to use in engagement with offenders (youth/adults). This course seeks to pull together some of those key skills in a course format to enable participants to transfer skills learnt into application in practice. This is a two day course for up to 16 participants and covers the following topics:
• New language and new research
• The tiered approach
• Nature
• Pattern
• Seriousness
• Likelihood
• Imminence
• Introducing the behavioural analysis approach
• Teaching to avoid and teaching to cope
• Teaching a skill
• The cognitive model
• Individual problem solving skills (the SPSI-R)
• Teaching problem solving as a skill
During this course participants will have the opportunity to self-assess their own problem solving skills and deficits.