Advanced Dementia Education Training

ICST dementia education training courses aim to empower the dementia health and social care workforce and family carers to deliver the best quality of care

iCST dementia education training courses are designed, developed, and delivered by Dr Phuong Leung, a visiting postdoctoral dementia research fellow at University College London, Division of Psychiatry, a senior dementia educator and the founder of iCST Dementia Education Training and Consultancy.

What does this education training involve?

This psychosocial education training course provides an interactive learning environment by applying communication skills and techniques through video observations, case studies, discussions, and practical exercises. It also provides the opportunity for delegates to share their experiences, skills and learn best practice from each other.

iCST Dementia Education Training are currently offering two unique continuing professional development (CPD) accredited courses.

1. One-day individual Cognitive Stimulation Therapy (iCST) dementia education online training course

iCST is an evidence-based intervention offering mentally stimulating and enjoyable activities to people with dementia. This dementia education training course is to empower health and social care professionals and family carers to deliver iCST to people with dementia in a standardise and person-centred way.

Learning outcomes:

• Understand the theories of mental stimulation and carers' involvement in cognition-based interventions.

• Understand the development and evaluation of iCST.

• Understand how to apply the iCST key principles, communication skills and techniques.

• Be able to deliver iCST to the person with dementia and train the family carer individually at an iCST setup visit.

• Be able to develop problem-solving strategies to deliver iCST sessions.

Key points for one-day iCST dementia education online training

The course fee for the one-day education training programme is £120.00 per delegate and £100 for per family carer.

We offer discount for group bookings over 5 delegates (10% off) and over 10 delegates (20% off)

Class size: up to12 delegates

2.    cPD advanced dementia education online training courses

Research indicates that psychosocial approaches have been underused in dementia care. This training is developed after two years of conducting surveys amongst iCST education training attendees and literature search to explore the needs of CPD education training to empower the health and social care workforce and family carers.

If you are a health and social care professional working with individuals with dementia and their family carers, then this advanced education training course is for you.

What does this education training involve?

This psychosocial education training course is to translate theories and research evidence into clinical practice. It provides an interactive learning environment by applying communication skills and techniques through video observations, case studies, discussions, and practical exercises. It also provides the opportunity for delegates to share their experiences, skills and learn best practice from each other.

This education training programme is facilitated by Dr Phuong Leung, a senior dementia educator.

Empowering The Health and Social Care Workforce Course (Module 1)

Learning outcomes

• Identify modified risk factors of dementia and preventions to reduce these risk factors across the life course.

• Have awareness of lessons learned from the impact of COVID 19 pandemic on dementia care.

• Understand the dementia caregiving stress process model and factors impact on stressors and carers’ well-being and the mediating role of coping strategies and social support.

• Understand the impact of neuropsychiatric symptoms (NPS) on people with dementia and family carers.

• Be able to apply effective communication skills and techniques to manage NPS.

• Understand the conceptual model of carers’ competence in managing NPS.

Empowering The Health and Social Care Workforce Course (Module 2)

Learning outcomes

• Identify empowering language in dementia.

• Understand family dynamics in dementia care.

• Understand attachment and social factors on dementia caregiving relationship.

• Understand complexity of triadic dementia care relationships include people with dementia, family carers and healthcare professionals which helps to improve the support given.

• Understanding emotion regulation and emotional intelligence which contribute to health professionals’ wellbeing, quality of patient care and psychological empowerment.  

• Development strategies for building emotional intelligence through communication skills and techniques.

Key points

The course fee for one-day education training programme is £110.00 per delegate.

Please take the advantages of a special offer for £95 for per delegate.

We offer discount for group bookings over 5 delegates (10% off) and over 10 delegates (20% off)

Class size: up to12 delegates