Course overview:
This unique training course is for psychotherapists, psychologists (counselling and clinical), counsellors, coaches, family and relationship therapists, psychiatrists, GPs, occupational therapists, social workers and other health professionals currently working with, or planning to be working with adults with ADHD.
We will orientate you to new and exciting ways to conceptualise and make sense of ADHD, for you and your clients, and support you to work with it creatively, holistically and therapeutically. Regardless of your primary modality, if you want to really understand, and learn to work effectively with individuals with ADHD, this is the course for you.
The programme has a therapeutic and lifestyle orientation, and it encourages and promotes an open, collaborative, and coaching-style approach. It is, however, not a formal ADHD coaching training, and we also do not teach you how to carry out formal diagnostic assessments, or how to advise on or prescribe medication for ADHD.
We feel it is essential to provide some orientation with respect to the journey of assessment and the criteria used to diagnose ADHD, in addition to a succinct but up-to-date and evidence-based overview of the medication and prescribing landscape. Having a solid foundational understanding in these clinical areas is fundamental to optimal care, and is in our view necessary if you are going to be working in this field.
We encourage participants to re-train with us every few years in order to stay up to date with respect to new developments, and to keep refreshed regarding one’s knowledge and skills. The course will adapt and grow as we discover more about this fascinating condition and learn how to work with it even more skilfully.
And we recognise that many, but certainly not all of those who choose to work in this field therapeutically, themselves have ADHD, or have had close relations with someone, often a family member, who does. Our training has been developed with this in mind, with a central focus on practitioner self-care and personal development through and beyond this learning experience.
We at The Grove pride ourselves on exceptionally high-quality education in the mental health domain, and this course is no exception. We have been training therapists and coaches for many years now, but with Dr James Kustow’s internationally recognised expertise, innovation and leadership in the field of adult ADHD, and his highly respected teaching style, this unique course strives to be cutting-edge and truly world-class. We do recommend that participants read (or listen to) Dr Kustow’s book, ‘How to Thrive with adult ADHD’ (published by Penguin) as part of an informal, foundational learning commitment, prior to attending the training.
There is a strong body-focus weaving its way through the programme. We believe that for too long now ADHD has been narrowly understood to be solely a brain or mind problem. It is also, in many ways, a body problem, and we are excited to orientate you to more multisystem, perspective of this curious disorder, and demonstrate how the body, through its optimal regulation, holds the key to effective management.
