Nicola Evans is a Senior Lecturer in Mental Health Nursing at Cardiff University, UK. She has over 15 years' experience in therapeutic work, and is trained in systemic family therapy practice and CBT for children and adolescents. Ben Hannigan is a Reader in Mental Health Nursing at Cardiff University, UK, and has a practice background as a community mental health nurse. He has published widely in nursing, health care and social science journals and was the winner of the RCN in Wales Research in Nursing Award 2015.
Part 1: Foundations for practice
1. Conducting assessment interviews 2. Clinical supervision
Part 2: Therapeutic skills
3. Person centred counselling 4. Using a solution focused approach 5.
Motivational interviewing 6. Using the skills of problem solving 7. The
skill of offering psychoeducation 8. Skills to challenge unhelpful thoughts
9. Validation skills applied to people with dementia 10. Preventing relapse
11. Behavioural management/activation 12. Mindfulness 13. De-escalating
volatile situations
Part 3: Working with families and groups 14. Working systemically with
families in mind 15. Working with groups 16. Family intervention in
psychosis
