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.
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 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 [...]
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 [...]
The first version of the ‘PD tube map’ was published in 2009 and its popularly meant that the 2000 printed copies soon disappeared, and it was only available on this website, as a pdf. The national PD programme team has decided that it was worth updating, and the new 2011 version is available here [link]. [...]
Exclusion Link CIC¹ is delighted to announce the launch on June 22 of its ‘greencare’ mental health project called ‘Growing Better Lives‘. The lottery funded start-up project ² is specifically for people affected by Personality Disorder and Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and seeks to use horticulture as a way to support those with complex emotional [...]
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 [...]
Rex Haigh alongside DH, NOMS and Emergence colleagues look to the future of the National PD programme On March 25, 2011, a team of five individuals involved with Department of Health National Personality Disorder Programme were tasked with delivering a plenary session at the Annual Conference of the British and Irish Group for the study [...]
Participants are needed to take part in new research being carried out at the University of Surrey. The study looks at the regulation of emotions and behaviours in people who have been diagnosed and/or identify with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD). It involves completing an online survey, which should take approximately 30 minutes. If you wish [...]