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 [...]