Testimonials

 

Target Counselling Services

"Target Counsellors recently attended the workshop ‘Assessment and Treatment of Suicidality’ run by Dr Eoin Galavan. This excellent training experience was rated very highly by all who attended and led to us arranging two further training dates with Target staff. At our request Eoin also helped us develop furtehr our suicide specific service policy and protocol for Target Counselling. The CAMS model he introduced to us has given staff a sense of renewed confidence and enthusiasm for working with suicidal clients, and a sense of comfort in knowing we are now employing an evidenced based approach. The CAMS model is collaborative, comprehensive and provides a stable clinical frame within which counselling can occur while managing suicidal risk. Eoin brings a great deal of clinical expertise and knowledge in the area of suicidality, and has considerable experience in utilising the CAMS model. I have no hesitation in recommending the workshop ‘Assessment and Treatment of Suicidality’ very highly." Juliette Smith, Manager, Target Counselling Services

 

Feedback

Feedback from attendees has been overwhelmingly positive. Hundreds of mental health professionals, psychiatrists, psychotherapists, counsellors, additction counsellors, trainees therapists and psychologists, clinical and counselling psychologists have attended this workshop. Feedback forms are administered at the end of each workshop with two scales to rate and an option for open ended feedback. Participants are asked how useful they found the workshop and whether they would reccomend it to a colleague. They are asked to rate these on a five point scale. 

 

Analysis of samples of feedback forms both quantitative and qualitatve provided further evidence that the participants overwhelmingly positively endorsed the training day. Many individuals wrote comments like 'the best training Ive ever been to', and over 95% endorsed the workshop at its highest ratings.

 

Many attendees indicated a desire for further training and second and third days have frequently been arranged with previous attendees and services. The CAMS model has proven extremely popular as a mode for engaging with suicidal clients.  

 

Follow up analysis indicated that a substantial percentage of attendees had used the CAMS model folowing the workshop, and many more intended to do so when the issue of suiidality emerged in their work again.

 

Follow up or repeat training days were arranged with the following groups:

Irish College of Psychiatry, Doctoral Training Program in Clinical Psychology TCD, Console: national suicide charity, Target Counselling Service, Irish Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy