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Did you take part in our online course “Focus on Suicidal Behaviours” yet? Then this is your chance to deepen your knowledge on the topic by participating in plenary sessions and practice your skills through workshops, simulation techniques and role play scenarios. 

For the second time, the EPA Summer School will focus on Suicidal Behaviours to take you One step beyond. Hear more from our previous participants on this blended learning approach:

• "The online course provided essential knowledge that was later further discussed at the in-person sessions."
• "The course was time-effective, and it gave us the opportunity to focus more on interactive activities, having some of the information already absorbed."
  
• “After the online course, I was familiar with the topic in general, which helped me greatly during the Summer School.”

 Do you want to take part in this unique experience?
Don’t miss out on this opportunity to learn from Prof. Olié, Prof. López-Castromán and Prof. Gramaglia! 

Find out more about the programme and apply by 02 May on the EPA website.

Along the past decades, digital psychiatry has gained a constantly growing momentum and scientific evidence on feasibility, efficacy and cost-effectiveness of telepsychiatry is currently well established. Due to the recent COVID-19 pandemic, telemental health care has been widely adopted worldwide, as a rapid response to governmental decisions to comply with preventive measures and the need to ensure mental health care at a distance for psychiatric patients. 

However, in time of crisis, telepsychiatry has been set up mostly with rapid implementation approaches, sometimes without a proper training and often with access inequities. 

This project aims to provide mental health professionals with the basic standards of telemental health care.

The up-to-date scientific literature and practical hints provided
 will give you an overview of the components of high quality telemental health care services in different settings.

Prof. Umberto Volpe and Prof. Donald Hilty have teamed up with experts in the field to create the EPA Telepsychiatry Toolkit.

The toolkit aims to provide mental health professionals with the basic standards of telemental health care, updated scientific literacy and practical hints to develop high quality telemental health care services in different settings.

More information coming soon, stay tuned !

We are very gratified by the success of our last online course “Focus on Suicidal Behaviours”, and we have decided to take this topic one step further. The EPA is therefore delighted to announce that the title of the next EPA Summer School edition will be “Focus on Suicidal Behaviours - One Step Beyond”. The event will take place on 29 September - 2 October 2022 in Strasbourg, France.

This will be an opportunity for the course’s participants to broaden even further their knowledge of suicidology. Participants will have the chance to meet in-person the course’s lead instructors, Professor Emilie Olié and Professor Jorge López-Castromán, and benefit from their expertise. Furthermore, attendance of our course is one of the requirements for the pre-selected candidates!

Interested in taking one step beyond? Submit your application by 19 June 2022 on the EPA website!

We have very exciting news ! EPA e-learning platform is one of the finalists in the category of Best eLearning / Online Education for the International & European Association Awards 2021.

The awards are organised by the Association of Association Executives. EPA e-learning platform submitted an entry at the begining of the 2021 and is now proud to be nominated amongst the best.

Other finalist associations in the same category are the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants, the Institute of Management Accountants, and the International Association of Endocrinologists.

The winner will be announced at The Awards Ceremony that will take place on 15 December.

We wish best of luck to all the award nominees.

Our new online course "Focus on Suicidal Behaviours" is now available in open access to all participants!

In conjunction with World Suicide Prevention Day 2021, join the global effort and commitment to better understand suicidal behaviours and how to prevent it. From public health to the advances of neurobiology, clinical assessment and optimal treatment, this online course will help you comprehend the key elements of suicidal risks. With this online course your knowledge about its treatment and prevention will know no bound!

Interested? Join the course today!

Interested in other topics? Check out our Courses catalogue.

Discover our new online course “Focus on Suicidal Behaviours”, opening on 10 September 2021 and led by Emilie Olié & Jorge López-Castromán!

Through the lenses of some of the world’s leading experts in the field of suicidology, you will learn more about suicidal behaviour, its treatment and how to prevent it. The topics range from public health to the advances of neurobiology, clinical assessment, and optimal treatment.

Something exciting happened last week: we filmed the last videos of our next EPA Online Course: “Focus on Suicidal Behaviours” led by Profs. Emilie Olié and Jorge Lopez-Castroman.
 
Coming in the Summer 2021, we will soon share more information on the course content, invited speakers and more! Visit the EPA website for the latest update.

Don’t forget: EPA paid-up members have full access to all EPA online courses, so join us now for this and other benefits!

We heard you loud and clear and are pleased to announce that English subtitles are now available on all our courses. Easy to activate, you only have to click on the “CC” at the bottom of the video to turn them on.

Stay tuned, more languages are coming in the next months!

We would love to hear what you would want to see next, do you have suggestions?

Share your thoughts and write to epa.elearning@europsy.net

Now is your chance to have a hand in the future of EPA online training!

Whether you are an avid e-learning user, new to the online training world or simply curious, your input is important to us.

We are always looking for innovative ideas to expand our e-learning offer and we would love to know more about your experience with online training, with the EPA or other platforms.

Your answers to this short survey will be a tremendous help in building the future of the EPA e-Learning programme.

Our online course Understanding and Treating Major Depressive Disorder is great for those who wish to expand their knowledge on clinical depression. 

Take a look at our participants’ feedback on this course:

"The course provides an excellent overview of relevant information related to depression, from etiology to the latest treatment options."

"The actor with the role of a patient did a really good job. I felt his problems and was sincerely happy when he got a little better"

"Always great to gain more knowledge from two experienced professionals!"

"An excellent course for those wishing to advance their basic knowledge of MDD."

Join the course and benefit from a high-quality training! 

The EPA is thrilled to announce that two NEW options are now available:

-          Speed up or slow down the pace on all our videos – click on the wheel at the bottom of the video and watch it up to x2 its normal speed

-          English subtitles for our online course “Understanding and Treating Major Depressive Disorder” – click on the “CC” at the bottom of the video to turn on the subtitles

More upgrades are underway!

We would love to hear from you: what would you want to see next? Let us know!

Will our course on Cognitive Behavioural Therapy meet your expectations ?

Learners who already took the course shared their feedback, read more below!

"A really helpful and complete programme!"

"The course was awesome. Frankly, I was surprised by the quality of this course and that it was not just glossing over the topic like other courses"

"The choice of teachers and invited speakers was excellent"

"Thank you so much for doing this. This I think will change how I talk with patients"

"The role play video was great - it definitely enhanced my understanding"

Interested? Join the course today!

Are you interested in learning more about Motivational Interviewing but not sure whether our course will meet your expectations?

Here are some of the comments from learners who completed the course, have a look!

"The style of training with short videos, example, exercises is so much better than the usual slide based format"

"The role play was very useful, the classroom set up made it feel very real"

"I must comment about the interviewee, playing the role of the patient. Her performance was excellent and on the ball. Very believable. The interviewers of course also did an excellent job"

Join the course today!

Did you know that our online courses will remain available all summer?

Now is the time to take on the challenge to learn more about Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Motivational Interviewing or Major Depressive Disorder!

And don't forget to complete the evaluation surveys at the end of each course to help us improve our platform and content, we look forward to your feedback.

Join the community today!

In this course, you will follow Dr. Stirling Moorey through 4 different chapters of highly engaging mini-lectures, demonstrative role-plays and interviews with international experts which will help you understand the varieties of CBT, their evolution, the application of CBT to various disorders, its key clinical features and the place of this important therapy in psychiatry today.

• Who is it for?

This course is designed not only for psychiatrists and health professionals, but for all interested participants wishing to know more about CBT and mental health issues.

There is no prerequisite knowledge necessary to take this course.

Did you know? EPA paid-up members can access our courses for free: join us!

In 2020, experience a new way to train and deepen your knowledge on Major Depressive Disorder.

Led by renowned experts Prof. Allan Young and Dr. Roland Zahnfrom King’s College London, this online course will give you a better understanding of the symptoms and how to diagnose depression. You will have access to interactive discussions reviewing available and emerging new treatments and so much more!

Stay tuned for more information about the official launch date!

To all our EPA members subscribers,

To maintain your access to our online course on Motivational Interviewing in 2020, make sure you have paid your 2020 membership fees on our Extranet and come back for your training course!

And don’t forget, more courses are coming next year… stay tuned!

Happy holidays from the EPA!

Over the past few months, more than 400 learners have joined us on this e-Learning platform,
thank you!

Among the participants of our "Introduction to Motivational Interviewing" course, almost 30% have now successfully completed the final quiz and received their Certificate of Completion. 

If you haven't completed the course yet, join your colleagues today and learn something new in #psychiatry this summer!

👉 Subscribe Now!

This is it!

Today we start our fourth and final chapter entitled “Putting it all together”.

We will introduce a simple module of the consultation: engage, focus, evoke, plan and we will put the skills we learnt in previous chapters into it to discuss how to shape conversation towards change.

As usual, test your knowledge with our weekly quiz and join the discussion: share your thoughts on how power imbalance can be managed in your work and how to support autonomy within psychiatric practice.

Once you have gone through this week’s lessons, don't forget to pass our final test to receive your Certificate of Completion!

We would also love to hear more about your experience with us: did you enjoy the course? what did you prefer? 

Let us know in the Evaluation Survey!

The third chapter of our course is now online and will focus on “Strategic direction”!

Throughout this week’s videos, you will learn more about how to identify change and sustain talk and how to respond to it. You will also understand the benefits of evocative questions and how to construct them.

Moreover, you will once again have the opportunity to watch MI in action with another role play as we go on to unpick ambivalence into change talk and sustain talk and look at how we can respond to change talk and sustain talk differently to help steer consultation on the direction of positive change.

In this week’s discussion, we ask about your impressions after the role play: how would you respond? What happens for you and the patient when responding to change talk in an MI consistent way? Join us!

Don’t forget to complete our weekly quiz to have access to the fourth and final Chapter - available from Wednesday 19 June.

Happy learning!

We hope you have enjoyed the first Chapter of the course ! 

It’s now already time to have a look at Chapter 2 “From the Relational to the Technical”.

In this Chapter, you will have the opportunity to watch Motivational Interviewing techniques in action with demonstration role plays and a debrief of the session led by Guy Undrill. You will finish with an interview of David Rosengren, MI trainer and member of the MI Network of Trainers (MINT) and our weekly quiz to assess your progress! 

This week’s discussion is also open and we want to know more about your daily practice with patients and how they respond to motivational techniques: join us! 

Next stop will be Chapter 3 “Strategic Direction” - available from Wednesday 12 June.

Happy learning!

Today is the first day of your training on Motivational Interviewing and we warmly thank you for enrolling in this course!

By now, you probably already know a lot more about it thanks to the introductory module “About the Online Course”. If not, go check it out!

You will find more detailed information on the course content and learning objectives, plus you can introduce yourself and meet the other participants in this forum. Don’t forget to fill out our Welcome survey as well before you start the course.

Then it’s time to get to work with Chapter 1 “The Relational Foundation”.

In this chapter, we will work together to:

1. Reflect on the key traits of both good and bad helpers
2. Learn a basic definition of motivational interviewing
3. Understand the partnership view of the patient-doctor relationship
4. Gain awareness of how low therapist empathy impacts outcomes
5. Appreciate the importance of change talk and sustain talk
6. Understand what ambivalence is and its impact

We also hope you’ll participate in this week’s discussion, we are here to answer your questions!

Don’t forget that Chapter 2 will be available from Wednesday 5 June 2019.

Happy learning!

Thank you for joining us on the EPA E-learning platform!

Did you already subscribe to our next course? 

If not, head over to the course presentation page and subscribe today. You will then have access to the course overview, practical information about the course content and can meet your fellow learners in the forum!

Don’t forget to complete our Welcome Survey as well to have access to the videos of Chapter 1: The Relational Foundation from 29 May 2019.

If you have any questions, don’t hesitate to email us through our Contact form.

Happy learning!

It's finally here!

The EPA is very pleased to announce that its second Online Course “Introduction to Motivational Interviewing (MI)” will start on Wednesday 29 May 2019 and is now open for enrolment! 

This online course is accessible for free for all EPA paid-up members using their Extranet login (email and password) to connect. A €30 fee will apply for other participants.

Check out our FAQ for more information and subscribe to the course today!

The second EPA online course “Introduction to Motivational Interviewing,” aims to give professionals techniques and ideas that can be used straight away in the workplace

Learners from around the world will be able to understand MI from the ground up: the spirit of MI, the crucial relational foundation, the key techniques and how to use the techniques to steer consultations in the direction of positive change.

Designed for psychiatrists and other mental health professionals, the course will open in May 2019.

Registrations will open soon, don’t forget to check our news feed right here for the latest information!

After the success of its first online course on Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, the EPA is thrilled to announce that the filming of another online course took place in January 0219. This year, learners from around the world will have the opportunity to gain knowledge through the new course, An Introduction to Motivational Interviewing.

To know more about the EPA E-learning programme, go visit www.europsy.net/e-learning/