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		<title>New section focuses on the strategy for women offenders with PD</title>
		<link>http://www.personalitydisorder.org.uk/2012/05/3149/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 May 2012 08:50:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ann Grain</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Borderline Personality Disorder]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Criminal Justice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Department of Health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[National Offender Management Service]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[National PD website]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As part of the overhaul of the national Personality Disorder website, the Women&#8217;s services section within the Criminal Justice area has had a facelift. Well, not strickly speaking &#8211; we have updated the copy and in the second phase will be uploading new imagery. Whilst we work to improve the whole site, we would love [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What is STEPPS &#8211; Sussex Partnership sets out its work with those affected by BPD</title>
		<link>http://www.personalitydisorder.org.uk/2012/04/what-is-stepps-sussex-partnership-sets-out-its-work-with-those-affected-by-bpd/</link>
		<comments>http://www.personalitydisorder.org.uk/2012/04/what-is-stepps-sussex-partnership-sets-out-its-work-with-those-affected-by-bpd/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2012 12:27:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ann Grain</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Borderline Personality Disorder]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Personality Disorder]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Recovery]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Service improvement]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Service users]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[STEPPS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Renee Harvey]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sussex Parnership Mental Health Trust]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Renee Harvey, consultant clinical psychologist and lead for PD service development and training at Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, sets out the Trust&#8217;s STEPPS project and explains its role as a skills training programme for people affected by Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD). STEPPS is an acronym for Systems Training for Emotional Predictability &#38; Problem Solving.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Approved Premises for women opens in Preston</title>
		<link>http://www.personalitydisorder.org.uk/2012/04/approved-premises-for-women-opens-in-preston/</link>
		<comments>http://www.personalitydisorder.org.uk/2012/04/approved-premises-for-women-opens-in-preston/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Apr 2012 10:53:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ann Grain</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Department of Health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[National Offender Management Service]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[PD services]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Personality Disorder]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SecureServices]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Edith Rigby House]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kevin Robinson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lancashire Probabtion Trust]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Laura d'Cruz]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A new Approved Premises (AP) for women opened on April 2, providing specialist structured accommodation to help break the cycle of re-offending. Edith Rigby House¹ in Preston is one of six Approved Premises for women in the country. The facility provides an opportunity for some of Lancashire’s most vulnerable women – many of whom are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New president for BIGSPD</title>
		<link>http://www.personalitydisorder.org.uk/2012/03/new-president-for-bigspd-and-venue-for-2013-conference/</link>
		<comments>http://www.personalitydisorder.org.uk/2012/03/new-president-for-bigspd-and-venue-for-2013-conference/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Mar 2012 11:36:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ann Grain</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[BIGSPD]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Conferences]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Research]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Service improvement]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Oxford Complex Needs Service]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Steve Pearce]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.personalitydisorder.org.uk/?p=3102</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Steve Pearce was elected as new president of The British and Irish Group for the Study of Personality Disorder (BIGSPD) at the organisation&#8217;s 12th Annual Conference held in March 2012. A consultant psychiatrist and clinical lead for the Oxford Complex Needs Service, Steve said: &#8220;I&#8217;m looking forward to my term as president and would like [...]]]></description>
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		<title>National PD website is having a facelift &#8211; watch this space</title>
		<link>http://www.personalitydisorder.org.uk/2012/03/national-pd-website-is-having-a-facelift-watch-this-space/</link>
		<comments>http://www.personalitydisorder.org.uk/2012/03/national-pd-website-is-having-a-facelift-watch-this-space/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Mar 2012 11:22:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ann Grain</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[National PD website]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.personalitydisorder.org.uk/?p=2976</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[After many years as an excellent source of information, the national Personality Disorder website is being redeveloped to better reflect the work being carried out by the three main work streams within PD – Emerging, Community and Offender. The work will also ensure all visitors to the site will find the relevant information quickly. When [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Mental Health Hero Awards shortlist announced</title>
		<link>http://www.personalitydisorder.org.uk/2012/03/the-mental-health-hero-awards-shortlist-announced/</link>
		<comments>http://www.personalitydisorder.org.uk/2012/03/the-mental-health-hero-awards-shortlist-announced/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Mar 2012 16:34:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ann Grain</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Awards]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Emergence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mental health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mental Healthy Hero Awards]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[www.mentalhealthy.co.uk alongside Emergence and national charities SANE, The Mental Health Foundation and The Centre for Mental Health, have recognised the fantastic achievements of some of the country’s finest heroes, who selflessly and tirelessly look to improve the lives of others, by shortlisting them for the 2012 Mental Health Hero Awards. These awards celebrate the incredible [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Have you booked your place at the May Living Learning Experience?</title>
		<link>http://www.personalitydisorder.org.uk/2012/03/have-you-booked-your-place-at-the-may-living-learning-experience/</link>
		<comments>http://www.personalitydisorder.org.uk/2012/03/have-you-booked-your-place-at-the-may-living-learning-experience/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Mar 2012 14:54:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ann Grain</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[CPD]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Living Learning Experience]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Association of Therapeutic Communities]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Exclusion Link]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[LLE]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Institute of Mental Health]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.personalitydisorder.org.uk/?p=2950</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Exclusion 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 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 explore the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Get your spring issue of the PD North Essex News here</title>
		<link>http://www.personalitydisorder.org.uk/2012/03/get-your-spring-issue-of-the-pd-north-essex-news-here/</link>
		<comments>http://www.personalitydisorder.org.uk/2012/03/get-your-spring-issue-of-the-pd-north-essex-news-here/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Mar 2012 15:04:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ann Grain</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Emergence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mental health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[PD newsletters]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Personality Disorder]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Beat the winter blues]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Care Farming Mersea Island]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Emergence Postcard Competition]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Haven art project]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.personalitydisorder.org.uk/?p=2942</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As the days get lighter, Personality-Disorder-North-Essex-News reflects on the progress they have made with The Haven Beat the Winter Blues Campaign (see page 2). The article provides all sorts of inspiration to approach the darker months in a different way. On page 3 there is news about a potentially exciting development in Care Farming, on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An oral history of residential therapeutic child care is ready to go on the road</title>
		<link>http://www.personalitydisorder.org.uk/2012/02/an-oral-history-of-residential-therapeutic-child-care-is-ready-to-go-on-the-road/</link>
		<comments>http://www.personalitydisorder.org.uk/2012/02/an-oral-history-of-residential-therapeutic-child-care-is-ready-to-go-on-the-road/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 14:36:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ann Grain</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Arts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mental health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Service users]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Therapeutic Communities]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Young people]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Planned Environment Therapy Trust Archive and Study Centre]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Therapeutic Living with Other People’s Children]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[‘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’ [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The PD label &#8211; a help, hope or hindrance?</title>
		<link>http://www.personalitydisorder.org.uk/2012/02/the-pd-label-a-help-hope-or-hindrance/</link>
		<comments>http://www.personalitydisorder.org.uk/2012/02/the-pd-label-a-help-hope-or-hindrance/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 12:09:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ann Grain</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Borderline Personality Disorder]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[KUF]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mental health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[PD newsletters]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Service users]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stigma]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[North Staffs Personality Disorder Service User Network]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.personalitydisorder.org.uk/?p=2914</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The North Staffs Personality Disorder Service User Network’s Newsletter is now available. Written and produced by service users, the newsletter&#8217;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 &#8211; does it help, provide hope [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Living-Learning Experience: Residential Training Course</title>
		<link>http://www.personalitydisorder.org.uk/2012/01/living-learning-experience-residential-training-course/</link>
		<comments>http://www.personalitydisorder.org.uk/2012/01/living-learning-experience-residential-training-course/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 16:20:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ann Grain</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[CPD]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[KUF]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Learning Networks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Living Learning Experience]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Personality Disorder]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Therapeutic Communities]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Training]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Association of Therapeutic Communities]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Exclusion Link]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Institute of Mental Health]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.personalitydisorder.org.uk/?p=2901</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Exclusion 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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BIGSPD 2012 Annual Conference update</title>
		<link>http://www.personalitydisorder.org.uk/2012/01/bigspd-2012-annual-conference-update/</link>
		<comments>http://www.personalitydisorder.org.uk/2012/01/bigspd-2012-annual-conference-update/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 11:54:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ann Grain</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[BIGSPD]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Conferences]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mental health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[British & Irish Group for the Study of Personality Disorder]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This year, for the first time, the British &#038; 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 &#8216;split&#8217; and where the first modern computer was built. The conference (March 21-23) will take place in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Impact Project Newsletter &#8211; December 2011</title>
		<link>http://www.personalitydisorder.org.uk/2012/01/impact-project-newsletter-december-2011/</link>
		<comments>http://www.personalitydisorder.org.uk/2012/01/impact-project-newsletter-december-2011/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 17:27:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ann Grain</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Criminal Justice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Department of Health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[National Offender Management Service]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[PD newsletters]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[PD pathways]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[PD services]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Impact Project]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.personalitydisorder.org.uk/?p=2881</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[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 &#8216;helping the workforce to help themselves&#8217;. To read the newsletter please follow this link Impact-Project-Newsletter16-December 11.]]></description>
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		<title>The ‘Pizza’ express visit or the ‘Italian Job’</title>
		<link>http://www.personalitydisorder.org.uk/2011/12/the-%e2%80%98pizza%e2%80%99-express-visit-or-the-%e2%80%98italian-job%e2%80%99/</link>
		<comments>http://www.personalitydisorder.org.uk/2011/12/the-%e2%80%98pizza%e2%80%99-express-visit-or-the-%e2%80%98italian-job%e2%80%99/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2011 16:12:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ann Grain</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Blog]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Haven]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.personalitydisorder.org.uk/?p=2830</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Our 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 &#8216;the Italians&#8217; went to visit! Fridays at the Haven are generally very chilled, we have the Gardening Group in the morning, booked appointments; lunch followed by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NICE ASPD Guideline to be reviewed in 2015</title>
		<link>http://www.personalitydisorder.org.uk/2011/12/nice-aspd-guideline-to-be-reviewed-in-2015/</link>
		<comments>http://www.personalitydisorder.org.uk/2011/12/nice-aspd-guideline-to-be-reviewed-in-2015/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2011 09:19:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ann Grain</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[PD services]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.personalitydisorder.org.uk/?p=2812</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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