2020 WorkshopsDifficult people, essentials guide to court, and Personality Assessment Inventory training in 2020.
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Workshops
Dr Phil Watts has run workshops for a variety of professional organisations for more than fifteen years. Phil will be running three workshop topics in 2020:
Dr Phil Watts can also provide peer supervision and in-house training.
Difficult People: Identifying and managing high conflict people before they destroy you!
Sydney, Brisbane, Melbourne, Canberra and Perth
Most people are reasonable and treat their therapist, family, friends and colleagues with respect and understanding. However, a small but significant number of people do not act like this. They may be your client, or the reason a client has come to therapy. Even worse, they may be a colleague, family member or workmate. If you become the target of blame from one of these people, your life may be impacted for years with legal, emotional, or complaint issues.
Interestingly, if someone is having difficulty with a high conflict difficult person, it makes sense to go a see a psychologist and they will teach assertiveness skills and boundaries. However, with some of these people it has no impact or assertiveness skill makes the situation worse as the difficult person does not care about how you feel or what consequence you want. Psychologist need to ensure that they understand how to help the clients differently and not to further entrench them in the situation. Therefore, when dealing with difficult high conflict people there needs to particular skills and strategies.
While high conflict difficult people may have personality disorders, it is not the only reason. Therefore, this workshop is about identifying and understanding these people, whether it is personality disorder or some other cause.
Dr Phil’s workshop discusses some of the differences between reasonable and unreasonable people, explains the links of how unreasonable people are often the high conflict parties, and will teach you some ways to recognise and manage the unreasonable person.
Essentials Guide to Court: How to not go, and if you do how to do it well!
Sydney, Brisbane, Melbourne, Canberra and Perth
Dr Phil has been training clinicians on how to avoid court and if they have to go, how to survive the witness box. His three one-day workshops include Legal Skills 101 – a Reliable witness, writing reports for court, and surviving the witness box. This workshop compresses the three past workshops into a single comprehensive package.
The content of the workshop includes:-
The target audience of this workshop is broad enough to cover anyone who has to give opinion evidence in court. The emphasis is for those who have minimal or limited experience with court and would like practical survival tools. Experienced practitioners will also benefit with a refresher in the key skills for giving good evidence. This workshop is ideal for those new to the area, and experienced practitioners will enjoy comparing their current approach to the sample reports.
This is a repackaging of Dr Phil’s previous Reliable Witness and Surviving the witness box workshops into a single one-day presentation.
Personality Assessment Inventory (PAI): Introductory and Advanced Interpretations
Melbourne and Sydney
For the last 25 years the PAI has been establishing itself as a psychological instrument of practical utility in assessing clinical pathology. This workshop is designed to help psychologists get the most from an assessment which involves the PAI.
The focus of the workshop is on practical skills training. The format of the day involves an initial review of the nature and structure of the PAI clinical scales in the morning. The practical skills training involves analysing a real protocol to establish confidence in using this tool both in formal assessments and clinical cases. The afternoon section focusses on response style indicators and detecting positive and negative (malingering) response patterns.
This workshop uses group discussion throughout the day. A range of cases are considered including family court, workers compensation, criminal related matters, and clinical assessment. The cases are real clients. If you have a scored but unusual PAI bring it along to for discussion. Application in personnel selection is touched on.
- Difficult people: Identifying and managing high conflict people before they destroy you!
- Essentials guide to court – How not to go, and if you do how to do it well!
- Personality Assessment Inventory (PAI): Introduction and Advanced Interpretations
Dr Phil Watts can also provide peer supervision and in-house training.
Difficult People: Identifying and managing high conflict people before they destroy you!
Sydney, Brisbane, Melbourne, Canberra and Perth
Most people are reasonable and treat their therapist, family, friends and colleagues with respect and understanding. However, a small but significant number of people do not act like this. They may be your client, or the reason a client has come to therapy. Even worse, they may be a colleague, family member or workmate. If you become the target of blame from one of these people, your life may be impacted for years with legal, emotional, or complaint issues.
Interestingly, if someone is having difficulty with a high conflict difficult person, it makes sense to go a see a psychologist and they will teach assertiveness skills and boundaries. However, with some of these people it has no impact or assertiveness skill makes the situation worse as the difficult person does not care about how you feel or what consequence you want. Psychologist need to ensure that they understand how to help the clients differently and not to further entrench them in the situation. Therefore, when dealing with difficult high conflict people there needs to particular skills and strategies.
While high conflict difficult people may have personality disorders, it is not the only reason. Therefore, this workshop is about identifying and understanding these people, whether it is personality disorder or some other cause.
Dr Phil’s workshop discusses some of the differences between reasonable and unreasonable people, explains the links of how unreasonable people are often the high conflict parties, and will teach you some ways to recognise and manage the unreasonable person.
Essentials Guide to Court: How to not go, and if you do how to do it well!
Sydney, Brisbane, Melbourne, Canberra and Perth
Dr Phil has been training clinicians on how to avoid court and if they have to go, how to survive the witness box. His three one-day workshops include Legal Skills 101 – a Reliable witness, writing reports for court, and surviving the witness box. This workshop compresses the three past workshops into a single comprehensive package.
The content of the workshop includes:-
- Understand the legal system and where mental health workers fits in
- Develop strategies to avoid going to court
- Appreciate the difference between lay and opinion evidence
- Understand the need for record keeping and notes
- Know the critical differences between treatment reports and forensic assessments
- Learn to write practical reports for court
- Anticipate the five domains of cross examination
- Learn why it is impossible to predict the line questions
- Practice strategies to survive the witness box
The target audience of this workshop is broad enough to cover anyone who has to give opinion evidence in court. The emphasis is for those who have minimal or limited experience with court and would like practical survival tools. Experienced practitioners will also benefit with a refresher in the key skills for giving good evidence. This workshop is ideal for those new to the area, and experienced practitioners will enjoy comparing their current approach to the sample reports.
This is a repackaging of Dr Phil’s previous Reliable Witness and Surviving the witness box workshops into a single one-day presentation.
Personality Assessment Inventory (PAI): Introductory and Advanced Interpretations
Melbourne and Sydney
For the last 25 years the PAI has been establishing itself as a psychological instrument of practical utility in assessing clinical pathology. This workshop is designed to help psychologists get the most from an assessment which involves the PAI.
The focus of the workshop is on practical skills training. The format of the day involves an initial review of the nature and structure of the PAI clinical scales in the morning. The practical skills training involves analysing a real protocol to establish confidence in using this tool both in formal assessments and clinical cases. The afternoon section focusses on response style indicators and detecting positive and negative (malingering) response patterns.
This workshop uses group discussion throughout the day. A range of cases are considered including family court, workers compensation, criminal related matters, and clinical assessment. The cases are real clients. If you have a scored but unusual PAI bring it along to for discussion. Application in personnel selection is touched on.
- The morning introductory component assumes no pre-existing knowledge about the PAI.
- The advance part of the workshop runs in the afternoon.
- This covers advance aspects of the PAI, response style indictors, effortful and non-effortful distortions, and other advanced tools
- Includes discussion on Corrective Services Norms and Selection Applications.
2020 workshops
Perth
Venue: TBA
Court Essentials Thursday 21 May 2020
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Difficult People Friday 22 May 2020
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Venue: TBA
Court Essentials Thursday 21 May 2020
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Difficult People Friday 22 May 2020
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Costs
The costs below include tuition, morning and afternoon tea, lunch and handouts.
Full day Seminar
$350.00 AUD (incl. GST).
Discounts
Full day Seminar
$350.00 AUD (incl. GST).
Discounts
- Organisations enrolling three or more participants may be eligible for a discount. Please contact us for details.
- Full-time students may be eligible for a discount. Please contact us for details.