Cognitive Stimulation Therapy (CST) Training - in person with Dr Helen Donovan
CST is an evidence-based group treatment for people with mild to moderate dementia.
Time & Location
23 May 2024, 09:30 – 16:30
Birmingham, 3rd Floor, Edmund House, 12-22 Newhall Street, Birmingham B3 3AS, UK
About the Event
What is Cognitive Stimulation Therapy (CST)?
CST is an evidence-based group treatment for people with mild to moderate dementia. It involves 14 or more sessions of stimulating, themed activities, based around more complex principles including learning theory and person-centred care. CST can be extended into a longer-term treatment and can be offered to a range of clients including outpatients and people in residential or day care.
What does the training involve?
Training is led by a Clinical Psychologists with extensive experience in offering CST. Training is interactive, involving group exercises, role-play and video observation as well as some ‘teaching'.
Course Aim
To give learners an overview of how to deliver Cognitive Stimulation Therapy (CST). CST is a brief evidence-based group treatment for people with dementia. This interactive course will include a background about CST and how it can be used, research overview and detailed presentation of the treatment, including video footage and role-play.
Learning Objectives - at the end of the training delegates will be able to:
- Reflect on some different perspectives of dementia
- Consider key psychosocial approaches for dementia
- Learn about how CST was designed and evaluated
- Be familiar with the 14 CST sessions, through session clips and role-play
- Understand how to apply the key principles to CST
- Develop a plan for running CST groups, which considers issues around implementation.
Dr Helen Donovan
Helen qualified in 1994 in Australia as a clinical psychologist, and has worked in older people’s mental health in both Australia and the UK for more than fifteen years. She has been the psychology lead for older people in Bedfordshire mental health services since 2003. She became involved with Cognitive Stimulation Therapy in 2006 after Aimee Spector joined the Trust, and has been involved in CST groups, supervision, training and research since that time. She was part of the SHIELD research team, with Bedfordshire as one of the sites in the randomised controlled trial of Maintenance Cognitive Stimulation Therapy. She has provided many CST training workshops and conference presentations in the UK and Australia.