Our guest blogger Sue Duncan from The Haven Project (dedicated to the support and treatment of people with a personality disorder) entertains us with her account of the day ‘the Italians’ went to visit! Fridays at the Haven are generally very chilled, we have the Gardening Group in the morning, booked appointments; lunch followed by [...]
Following a Review of Clinical Guideline (CG77) – Antisocial personality disorder: treatment, management and prevention, by the National Institute for Health and Clinical Health (NICE), the recommendation is that the guideline should not be considered for an update at this time. The next review date will be January 2015. The stakeholders involved in the review [...]
Take a look at the Christmas issue of the The Haven Newsletter. Page 2 is a celebration of achievements for many different Haven clients over the past year; on page 3 the Newsletter has up-to-the-minute news about fundraising for The Haven Social Inclusion Unit and also details about the artwork and photographs for sale on [...]
The report highlights many of the year’s successes including the project being recognised by the Department of Health as a Personality Disorder Innovation Centre and is now part of a national PD Innovations Network. In the Chairman’s Report Reg McKenna says: “This is yet another accolade the project has received and proof, if any is [...]
BBC 4 All in the Mind focussed on 22.11.11 on new research that claims to have uncovered that it is more crucial than ever to deal with bullying in schools effectively. The longitudinal study followed children over time to separate bullying from harsh parenting or pre-existing mental health conditions. Part of a huge study, 6000 [...]
The East of England KUF Partnership has published a report entitled ‘Personality Disorder Training Evaluation for the First 168 Graduates of the KUF Awareness Module in the East of England’ “The paramount recommendation from this evaluation is that the training is proving highly effective and needs to continue. It is Awareness Training and will not [...]
BIGSPD was formed in 2000 and is a focus for academic and professional networking in the field of personality disorder. The main event each year is a conference with international speakers presenting new research findings and clinical approaches to personality disorders. Previous meetings have been held in London, Leicester, Jersey, Dublin, Cardiff, Glasgow, Nottingham, Cambridge [...]
The Department of Health and Ministry of Justice (National Offender Management Service) has recently published a new information sheet on Psychologically Informed Planned Environments (PIPEs). PIPEs are specifically designed environments where staff members have additional training to develop an increased psychological understanding of their work. This understanding enables them to further create a safe and [...]
The Government has today announced it is to take forward a new pathway approach in a bid to ensure the complex needs of high risk offenders, with personality disorder, is addressed more effectively. As a result, it will start to decommission the dangerous and severe personality disorder (DSPD) pilot sites in the NHS – the [...]
The Cassel Hospital is relaunching its residential, outreach and day services for people with personality disorder and complex needs. Dr Wilhelm Skogstad, Consultant Psychiatrist in Psychotherapy and Lead Clinician at the Cassel, told the PD website: “With our experience over decades of treating clients with personality disorders, we have found that they commonly experience a [...]