The BPS Approved Certificate in Resource Based Therapies (RBT) consists of 3 modules / 5 training days that can be booked together or separately. The Certificate includes Motivational Interviewing & Beyond (2-day course), Solution Focused Brief Therapy (2-day course), and Positive Psychotherapy: Supercharge Your Practice (1-day course). These three approaches share considerable overlap and common theoretical underpinnings, and all utilise brief and practical interventions to facilitate change.
The BPS Approved Certificate in Resource Based Therapies (RBT) consists of three modules delivered over five training days, which can be booked together or separately.
The three modules are Motivational Interviewing & Beyond (two days), Solution Focused Brief Therapy (two days), and Positive Psychotherapy: Supercharge Your Practice (one day).
There is a considerable overlap and shared theoretical underpinning across these three approaches. All are evidence-based, with strong empirical foundations supporting their theories, processes, and interventions.
All three approaches are resource-based in their assumptions, focusing on what clients already possess that enables them to thrive, and on how these resources can be amplified. Motivational Interviewing draws strongly on Rogers’ ideas regarding intrinsic motivation; Solution Focused Brief Therapy emphasises existing strengths; and Positive Psychology places client strengths at the centre of therapeutic change.
As a result, all three approaches are outcome, future, and thriving focused, rather than causal, deficit, and past focused — a combination that remains relatively uncommon across psychotherapeutic models. Finally, all three utilise brief and practical interventions to facilitate change.
The structure of the 5 days is as follows:
Each module starts with an introduction to the three modalities: similarities and differences between Positive Psychology, Solution Focused Brief Therapy & Motivational Interviewing and the limitations of pathology-based therapies.
Each modality is then explored in depth within its respective course.
A two day training course designed to empower you to motivate your clients and patients. You’ll be taken through a range of issues, strategies and tips designed to improve your motivational strategies whatever your client group –from treatment non-compliance through offending behaviour to working with those with severe mental health problems. This evidence-based seminar will address the following issues:
This evidence-based two-day course is designed to provide you with the highest possible standard of training, a solid grounding in Solution Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT) and enable you to make immediate use of your learning on return to your workplace. It is invaluable in a range of health care and social services environments across the age span.
The history and evidence base of positive psychology and its practical application.
Enhancing "client wellbeing" "Teaching happiness" and its use with a range of client groups from children to offenders.
The relationship between well-being and the reduction in "problematic behaviour".
Identifying and enhancing client strengths: VIA "Signature Strengths" and how they might be identified and used in therapy. Developing gratitude and its impact on motivation and mood.
The development of Optimism in pessimistic clients
Environmental interventions and their impact on pro-social behaviour and positive mood. Practical implications and uses.
The order in which delegates attend the courses is flexible. Delegates will be awarded a Certificate of Attendance upon successful completion of each course.
As an additional option, delegates can take an assessment (consisting of additional reading and an online test) – successful completion of which will result in obtaining a Certificate of Assessed Academic Competence with 35 CPD hours.
SDS Accreditation, Level 1 (Foundation) is awarded upon completion of any of the modules comprising the above Certificate.
This level of accreditation gives you a Certificate of Attendance and enables you to state on your CV that you hold SDS Accreditation in Resource Based Therapies, Level 1 (Foundation).
Your accreditation is valid for three years, after which you may no longer make the above statement.
This level of accreditation can be renewed by completing a refresher course.
SDS Accreditation, Level 2 (Assessed Academic Competence) is awarded upon completion of all modules comprising the Certificate in Resource Based Therapies and successful completion of the associated online exam.
This level of accreditation gives you a BPS Approved Certificate in Resource Based Therapies. It also enables you to state on your CV that you hold SDS Accreditation in Resource Based Therapies, Level 2 (Assessed Academic Competence).
Your accreditation is valid for three years, after which you may no longer make the above statements.
This level of accreditation can be renewed by completing a refresher course.
SDS Accreditation, Level 3 (Clinical Proficiency) has the same requirements as Level 2, with the following additional requirements:
Submission of a project of an acceptable standard (3,000 words) at the end of your Certificate training. The purpose of the project is to illustrate that you can apply the academic knowledge gained from the course to a clinical situation.
Submission of a written statement from your Clinical Supervisor confirming the regularity and duration of your supervision with them and your competence as a clinician in the chosen topic. Your Clinical Supervisor should meet our qualification criteria for Motivational Interviewing, Solution Focused Therapy, or both.
This level of accreditation gives you a BPS Approved Certificate in Resource Based Therapies. It also enables you to state on your CV that you hold SDS Accreditation in Resource Based Therapies, Level 3 (Clinical Proficiency), as a Practitioner in Resource Based Therapies.
You will also be given the option to be listed in the SDS Register of Qualified Practitioners in the appropriate field – our Network of Qualified Practitioners.
Your accreditation is valid for three years, after which you may no longer make the above statements.
This level of accreditation can be renewed by completing a refresher course and submitting a new written statement from your Clinical Supervisor.
If you are interested in clinical supervision in Resource Based Therapies with Paul Grantham, please contact the office at info@sds-seminars.com.
Thank you for the great courses in resource-based therapies this year. The subject matter was very relevant to my life and work, while the opportunity to attend the seminars online was an added bonus, given my distance from London and commitments at home.
As suggested in the positive therapy course, I went away and tried doing something different. I have a great interest in coaching, so I booked myself some personal coaching with a TA therapist and went along with some ideas and challenges, but no burning questions or "problems" to focus on. Over the course of six weeks I came up with some interesting personal priorities, a greater sense of autonomy and boundaries to help me deliver on them, and a personal action plan for the next year with timescales attached. I had no idea I was going to do this but it was brilliant! I'm happy to say that my plan includes the SDS course in compassion-focused therapy [link to the course], so I will be back for another webinar in 2017.
The other, completely unexpected bonus was your final offering on the importance of savannahs and green spaces. Having lived in Africa in the past, and still loving English parkland, this made perfect sense to me intuitively, even though I love and live by the coast. So when a friend moved away to the midlands and missed the sea, I passed on your evidence to her and told her to go find herself a savannah! She soon found herself a large leafy park with a lake in, and is now very happy pursuing a personal mission to save the water-birds there from malnutrition and deformities, by ensuring they get some appropriate food and not just the bread usually thrown to them. So the word has spread already and will doubtless continue. Out of such little acorns do mighty oaks - or acacias?! - grow. These are just two examples of the positive results of the course and I am so glad that I took it. Thank you once again and please pass on my thanks and best wishes to all the team.
