‘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’ [...]
0 ... read more Feb 02 2012The 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 [...]
3 ... read more Jan 26 2012Exclusion Link, the Association of Therapeutic Communities and The Institute of Mental Health have come together to run a residential training course in May 2012. This is a residential training course of intensive group work, to help staff develop reflective practice skills. It is set up as a highly structured programme of activities where participants [...]
0 ... read more Jan 11 2012This year, for the first time, the British & Irish Group for the Study of Personality Disorder Annual Conference will be held in Manchester. Home to over 20 Nobel Prize winners, Manchester is where the atom was first ‘split’ and where the first modern computer was built. The conference (March 21-23) will take place in [...]
2 ... read more Jan 04 2012In 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.
0 ... read more Dec 16 2011Our guest blogger Sue Duncan from The Haven Project (dedicated to the support and treatment of people with a personality disorder) entertains us with her account of the day ‘the Italians’ went to visit! Fridays at the Haven are generally very chilled, we have the Gardening Group in the morning, booked appointments; lunch followed by [...]
0 ... read more Dec 15 2011Following 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 [...]
0 ... read more Dec 06 2011Take 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 [...]
0 ... read more Nov 29 2011The 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 [...]
0 ... read more Nov 24 2011BBC 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 [...]
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