• Pre Therapy
• Contact Work Concepts
  • Pre Therapy
  • Theory and Practice of Psychological Contact
• Positive Outcome
  • For Client
  • For Staff
• Who can use Contact Skills?
• Current Interest
  • In the UK
  • Web Information
  • Hospitals  / Trusts / Charities Interest with Pre-Therapy
  • Studies Showing Efficacy
  • Doctoral Research Project
• Events in the UK and Belgium
• Pre Therapy Reference List
• Suggested Reading
• You Tube Education Series
• Professor Garry Prouty
• Brief History of Pre-Therapy by Professor Garry Prouty
• Pre Therapy Research
• UK Trainers
• Professional Contacts
  • Lorna Carrick
  • Mathias Dekeyser
  • Penny Dodds
  • Robert Elliot
  • Anja Rutten
  • Pete Sanders
  • Wendy Traynor
  • Dion Van Werde
• NIMHE Appraisal
• About Me
• The Pre Therapy International Network
• Pre-Therapy International Network‎

For Staff

• Self empowerment
• Increased awareness of different types of behavioural functioning
  
• Deeper understanding of levels of behaviour experiencing
  
• Develops skills to alleviate clients' hallucinations and delusions.
• Ability to reduce clients’ distress.
  
• Encourage clients to get back in touch within themselves, other people and the shared world
• Increased ability to engage with clients.
• Increased ability to earn the trust of the client.
• Opportunity for greater involvement of the ‘person hood’ of staff member with the client
• Psychologists and psychiatrists have the potential of understanding the source of distress
• Opportunity for greater involvement of staff in a healing relationship
• An increase in job satisfaction
  
• Fewer re-admissions through the 'ever revolving door'
  
• Financial and social benefits giving significant cost reductions to care providers