Self harm and borderline personality disorder: Exploring practice, controversy and common ground
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 Leeds on February 9, 2011, will bring together experts by experience and by profession to debate and question the use of borderline personality disorder as a diagnosis for people who self-harm. It seeks to actively engage with diversity, leading the way for constructive exploration of self-harm and borderline personality disorder.
Key themes for the conference include:
Managing Self-harm
What helps in working with people who self-harm
Participatory debate on the diagnosis of BPD
BPD and DSM reclassification
Service user experience and knowledge in health education
Evaluating treatment interventions
Diversity, self-harm and BPD
Chair and key speakers:
Chaired by Dr Mark Cresswell Sociologist, School of Applied Social Sciences, University of Durham, key speakers include: Suzie Marriot, Mental Health Nurse; Clare Shaw, Director and Training Partner, harm-ed; Sue Alford, Psychotherapist, Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership Trust and Fiona Venner, Project Manager, Leeds Crisis Service.
Who should attend?
Frontline mental health workers in social care teams
Psychologists and psychiatrists in acute and community settings
Mental health nurses in acute and community settings
Prison staff in young offender and adult settings
Women’s mental health services including forensic mental health services
Personality disorder (PD) and borderline personality disorder (BPD) units and services
Therapeutic communities
Mental health charities
Commissioners, Managers and Planners of mental health services
Self-harm services; BPD user groups; self-harm user groups
NICE guidelines representatives
PD and self-harm experts
Survivors
Delegate rates:
Standard rate: £295 + VAT (central government / private sector organisation)
Reduced rate: £255 + VAT (public sector / educational / charitable / NHS /voluntary organisation)
Supported rate: £195 + VAT (unwaged / student / small voluntary sector organisations)
For further information call Pavilion on 0844 880 5061 or email louises@pavpub.com
managing slef harm i have bpd but i dont really slef harm i use slef destructive behavior me personaly i will speek for 30 people who have bpd in the uk we dont think we are been looked after properly we are been let down all the time maybee they should also put on the confrence satisfying there custimers or patients