The North Staffs Personality Disorder Service User Network’s Newsletter is now available. Written and produced by service users, the newsletter’s aim is to be useful and inspiring for service users, carers and those who work with people with PD. The lead story opens the debate on the PD label – does it help, provide hope [...]
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 [...]
An action packed day awaits the 150 delegates* attending Emergence’s first Open Day on Friday July 8. The day will start with a keynote presentation from Meredith Vivian OBE, Emergence’s newest recruit. For many years Meredith was Deputy Director of Mental Health Care Pathways at the Department of Health. This will be followed with a [...]
Emergence, the national service user-led organisation which support everyone affected by personality disorder, is holding its first ever Open Day on July 8. The day is for anyone interested in becoming involved with Emergence, finding out about the work they do, looking for new employment opportunities or interested in exploring how the organisation can support [...]
Dr Marsha Linehan, a leading US expert on Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) and founder of an effective therapy treatment for the disorder Dialectal Behaviour Therapy (DBT), has ‘come out’ to reveal her own struggle with BPD in the New York Times (June 23, 2011) .
Dr Hanna Pickard, Wellcome Trust Biomedical Ethics Clinical Research Fellow at the Oxford Centre for Neuroethics and All Souls College gave a thought provoking lecture at the 11th Annual Conference of the British and Irish Group for the Study of Personality Disorder exploring why we should turn to Aristotle to better understand personality disorder. We [...]
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) [...]
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 [...]
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 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 [...]