‘Therapeutic Living with Other People’s Children: An oral history of residential therapeutic child care’ is ready to go on the road (March 1-15), and is looking for venues. With the funding and support of the Planned Environment Therapy Trust Archive and Study Centre and the Heritage Lottery Fund the ‘Therapeutic Living with Other People’s Children’ [...]
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 [...]
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 Impact Team Newsletter is now available on the PD website. This edition describes the team’s current thoughts on the Impact Personality Disorder Project model (in Camden & Islington) and they give an update on the evaluation of prison recalls.
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 [...]
The new community personality disorder project in Slough has no room at the Inn. Wexham Park Hospital is now so crowded, no new space can be found for the psychotherapy group in the new intensive treatment programme. But undeterred, the group has bought the largest Yurt on the market, which arrived from Granada, Spain in [...]
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What is PD
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 [...]
An innovative arts project ‘for service users delivered by service users’ is delighted to have been chosen as one of two runners up in the Customer Service category at the 2010 Guardian Public Society Awards ceremony in London (23.11.10) http://www.guardian.co.uk/publicservicesawards/winners-2010 ‘Creative Personalities’, a joint project between Leeds-based mental health charity Community Links and personality disorder [...]
The British and Irish Group for the Study of Personality Disorder (BIGSPD) is holding its 11th Annual Conference from March 23-25, 2011 at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford University. Registration is now open. Formed in 2000, BIGSPD is a focus for academic and professional networking in the field of personality disorder. The two-day conference is already [...]