In this edition of the Impact Project Newsletter, the team introduce a new section in which they give a brief tip for improving case management. The publication also focusses on ‘helping the workforce to help themselves’. To read the newsletter please follow this link Impact-Project-Newsletter16-December 11.
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 [...]
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 [...]
There is only one month left to respond to the joint Department of Health/National Offender Management Service consultation ‘Offender Personality Disorder Pathway Implementation Plan’. To submit your views about a new pathway approach for the treatment and management of offenders with serious personality disorders follow this link for a copy of the consultation document. The [...]
The Government’s National Personality Disorder Programme – past, present and future – is the subject of a plenary session at this year’s BIGSPD (British and Irish Group for the Study of Personality Disorder) on Friday March 25 at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford. Speaking are Nick Benefield, Rex Haigh, Nick Joseph, Kath Lovell and Lisa Wilson. [...]
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 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 [...]
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 [...]
A York project is helping women make the transition from secure services to more independent living. Garrow House, a 12 bed high support residential service for women with complex needs and forensic histories (opened in 2009), is one of four Department of Health national pilot schemes set up to trial new step-down provision from low [...]