Introduction to Arts Based Dynamic Interpersonal Therapy (ADIT)
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Introduction to Arts Based Dynamic Interpersonal Therapy (ADIT) Training Day - Online
This one-day course aims to enhance your clinical arts therapies skills in clinical formulation and to have an understanding of some of the competencies required to deliver an effective psychodynamic brief intervention. We will introduce the ideas of Dynamic Interpersonal Therapy and give you a view of how DIT trained arts psychotherapists in CNWL have adapted an evidence-based model for working in secondary care with complex clients who have a range of interpersonal issues in connection to mood.
Key elements of the day will focus on the following learning objectives:
1. Understand the structure of a brief approach and phases of treatment
2. Understand how formulation is used as a focus in the work
3. Be able to identify components of the dynamic formulation and use of the arts as a way of exploring the dynamic formulation
4. Understanding the limitations of the approach
5. Understand the use of dynamic formulation with complex depression
ADIT uses the Arts Psychotherapies to primarily focus on relational difficulties. ADIT aims to help people recognise specific relationship patterns using arts media and to make changes in their relational patterns. With the use of arts media the therapist will encourage reflecting thoughts and feelings, enhancing an ability to manage current interpersonal difficulties. Using arts aims to relieve symptoms of distress, enhancing interpersonal functioning and a capacity for understanding self and other. There is a growing body of scientific evidence demonstrating the benefit of relational psychotherapy approaches.
The training is relevant for arts therapists working with mood disorders with an interest in utilising dynamic formulation.
Organiser ICAPT (CNWL NHS Foundation Trust)
Organiser of Introduction to Arts Based Dynamic Interpersonal Therapy (ADIT)
Developing and implementing effective approaches for arts psychotherapies practice in mental health.
Arts psychotherapists use a non-verbal medium to help link talking and feeling in powerful and focused ways. ICAPT supports models of practice being applied safely and in collaboration with the patient, taking account of evidence.
The International Centre for Arts Psychotherapies Training in Mental Health (ICAPT) was established in 2011 to build upon the excellence of arts psychotherapies clinical expertise and to offer training for evidence-informed practice more widely. The aim of the centre is to provide a better experience for patients where interventions are guided but not prescriptive and are informed by research without losing the intuition and innovation of which arts psychotherapists are known for.
The priorities of the centre are to:
- Offer training in mentalisation-based arts psychotherapies, interpersonal arts psychotherapies and interventions for psychosis
- Develop clinical research and quality improvement projects for arts psychotherapies within mental health services
- Develop dialogues with service users about what works for whom
- Build an international community
This is the first centre of its kind in health care, accessible to all arts psychotherapists nationally and internationally with a focus on evidence-informed practice for clinical groups and will help to offer a way forward for arts psychotherapists refining clinical methods verbally and non-verbally for specific clinical populations.
