PICAHalf Day Course

Course overview

This course is designed for anyone wanting to improve their skills and reach their potential as a practitioner. The course is fully interactive and prompts you to assess your own approach to supporting young people. The course aims to increase the knowledge and awareness of practitioners supporting people with PDA and covers key topics such as providing a full awareness of the condition and how it effects people, facilitators provide space to discuss how the condition can cause damage to the physical and mental health of people living with the condition and how to support people whilst implementing their knowledge into their practice. The content encourages people to work collaboratively in a person centred way, manage risks and share information with other professionals and family and highlights some approaches that can help people involved in the care and education of people with PICA. The course also includes a downloadable PDF workbook that you can fill in as you complete the training, so that you can develop your skills as a leader or manager and get the most out of the course content.

Aims and objectives

• Full understanding of the condition and how it affects people
• Discuss how it can cause damage to the physical and mental health of people who live with PICA
• Discuss how to support people with it and to implement this knowledge into practice
• Encourage staff to work together to manage risk and share information
• Highlight some approaches that can help when working with PICA