The new community personality disorder project in Slough has no room at the Inn. Wexham Park Hospital is now so crowded, no new space can be found for the psychotherapy group in the new intensive treatment programme. But undeterred, the group has bought the largest Yurt on the market, which arrived from Granada, Spain in [...]
Personality disorders manifest themselves in a variety of ways and there is also debate about the extent to which these conditions can be treated. In the December 2010 issue of Mental Health Review Journal, Lord Adebowale (CEO of Turning Point UK) debates the definition of personality disorder and considers the stigma that this diagnosis can [...]
Understanding different types of emotional distress: an important area of mental health that is getting increasingly recognised is the way people express various forms of emotional distress. It can cause various behaviours: People harm themselves, for example by cutting their arms Drinking unsafe amounts of alcohol Taking illegal drugs regularly, excessively or irresponsibly Misusing prescribed [...]
The aim of this conference is to offer anyone working with people who self-harm, who have a diagnosis of borderline personality disorder, an opportunity to discuss helpful ways of working with this client group with experts by profession from nursing, psychology and psychiatry, alongside service user/human rights activists. This conference, repeated by popular demand in [...]
A York project is helping women make the transition from secure services to more independent living. Garrow House, a 12 bed high support residential service for women with complex needs and forensic histories (opened in 2009), is one of four Department of Health national pilot schemes set up to trial new step-down provision from low [...]
An innovative arts project ‘for service users delivered by service users’ is delighted to have been chosen as one of two runners up in the Customer Service category at the 2010 Guardian Public Society Awards ceremony in London (23.11.10) http://www.guardian.co.uk/publicservicesawards/winners-2010 ‘Creative Personalities’, a joint project between Leeds-based mental health charity Community Links and personality disorder [...]
The policy paper (Under the Radar – Women with Borderline Personality Disorder in Prison), published recently by the Centre for Mental Health, calls for better diversion from custodial sentences for women with a personality disorder and increased training for prison staff. Written by Matt Fossey and Georgia Black, it is available free to download from [...]
The British and Irish Group for the Study of Personality Disorder (BIGSPD) is holding its 11th Annual Conference from March 23-25, 2011 at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford University. Registration is now open. Formed in 2000, BIGSPD is a focus for academic and professional networking in the field of personality disorder. The two-day conference is already [...]
‘Creative Personalities’ – Yorkshire and Humber, a joint project between personality disorder (PD) service-user group Emergence and Leeds-based mental health charity Community Links, has been this week shortlisted for a Society Guardian Public Services Award (customer service category). http://www.guardian.co.uk/publicservicesawards/shortlist-2010 The project brings together people affected by PD in Yorkshire and Humber and enables anyone with [...]
Childhood trauma as a result of abuse is frequently the catalyst for ongoing mental health related problems in adulthood. Statistics about trauma and adult mental health issues make shocking reading. The impacts of trauma are far-reaching, touching every part of survivors’ lives. Social problems such as homelessness, physical manifestations such as self-harm and eating disorders [...]