Certified Correctional Personnel Dementia Trainer CCPDT
| Steps to becoming a CCPDT |
Step 1: Your organization contacts NCCDP to arrange a group training of the educators providing education to the Correctional Personnel. Please contact 1.973.729.6601 or email nccdpcorporate@nccdp.org Step 2: Once your organization has arranged for training, a copy of this application will be sent to you for completion. You are welcome to download the application. Step 3: Attend the one day live in person CCPDT. In the class, you will receive a Correctional Personnel Dementia curriculum PowerPoint presentation on Memory Stick, Instructor Manual, Master Student Handout Notebook, Textbooks (environment, activities, diagnosis, and communication) video on Sexuality on a memory stick, pretest, posttest and certification as a CCPDT. You are then authorized as a CCPDT to provide the CPDT Correctional Personnel Dementia Training curriculum. Qualifications: Fee: Renewal: Renewal fee: FORMS: Letter to Give To Correctional Facilities for Group CDTCP Discount |
Actively employed and in good standing at a correctional facility.| Course Description and Goals |
| Description: This educational seminar is designed to educate and prepare the nurse/or clinical trainer of a medical correctional facility for the purposes of presenting the NCCDP Alzheimer's and Dementia Care Seminar for Correctional Personnel to those working in a correctional medical facility who provide day to day care and/or management of inmates/patients that have symptoms of dementia related to Alzheimer's Disease or other related neurocognitive diseases/disorders. Course Goals and Objectives: Goals: - To prepare the trainer with fundamental education on dementia and dementia care within the medical correctional facility. - To direct and educate staff with the content of the seminar to enhance the quality of life of dementia patients in the medical correctional facility by educating care providers - Foster sensitivity and respect for the dementia client among the correctional personnel. - To teach communication techniques to utilize with the dementia client - To provide sensitive approaches for assisting patients with activities of daily living in the medical correctional facility. Correctional Personnel Trainer will: - Impart an understanding of dementia to the correctional personnel. - Explain common causes of aggressive, repetitive and sundowning behaviors in adults. - Describe behavioral/care interventions that may be used to prevent or reduce difficult care situations. - Describe challenges related to caregiver stress and utilize stress reduction techniques. - Discuss alternative activity interventions that are success oriented and failure free. - Distribute a certificate of attendance to students upon completion of the seminar. |
| Alzheimer's Disease and Dementia Care Seminar for Correctional Personnel Table of Contents |
Chapter 1: Introduction to Dementia: Diagnosis, Prognosis, and Treatment |