A problem that has confronted all specialist personality disorder services is how to achieve a representative proportion of black and minority ethnic service users for the population they serve. A new service in the East End of London identified this problem in their study. Consultant Psychiatrist, Dr Tennyson Lee (from the Tower Hamlets PD Service) [...]
The consultation on the joint Department of Health/National Offender Management Service ‘Offender Personality Disorder Pathway Implementation Plan’ is seeking your views about a new pathway approach for the treatment and management of offenders with serious personality disorders. This consultation closes on 12 May 2011, after which a summary of responses will be published. For a [...]
A ‘psychologically informed environment’, or PIE, is the first of many new concepts that have spun off from the Royal College of Psychiatrists’ Enabling Environments (EE) initiative. Based on the early developments in the therapeutic community movement, and adapting these values and principle to the 21st century world of community mental health, the EE initiative [...]
A practitioners guide to working with offenders with personality disorders has been produced by the National Offender Management Service (NOMS) in partnership with the Department of Health. It is designed to provide practical, hands-on advice to offender managers and other frontline staff working with offenders with highly complex needs. The guide will be particularly useful [...]
Are you interested in taking part in a study looking at the experience of recovery for people with borderline personality disorder? Victoria Green, a student in the last year of clinical psychology training at Leeds Institute of Health Sciences (Faculty of Medicine and Health/Leeds University), is undertaking a thesis on the subject and she needs [...]