Jul
27
2010

Mental Health Congress – November 9/10 2010

HSJ has announced the dates for its Mental Health Congress – November 9-10, 2010

Jul
20
2010

Andrew Sims Centre Autumn 2010 programme now available

Events for mental health professionals and multi-disciplinary health and social care staff working in mental health.

Jul
14
2010

Ministers back pilot therapy programme for young offenders

The Guardian ran the following article on July 9 a couple of days after the conference: ‘Complex Families: Multisystemic Solutions’. A scheme to keep challenging young people out of care or prison through intensive family support won the backing of government ministers yesterday who said it might offer a cost-effective way to deal with antisocial behaviour.

Jul
14
2010

New PD service in Slough

From the Thames Valley Initiative stable a new service has quietly been setting up over the last year.

Jul
14
2010

Calling all people who work with, or have an interest in, personality disorder

A trainee psychotherapist is looking to bring together a group of people, on Skype, to gain an understanding of the Masterson Approach to working with people with PD. Jo Moller is keen to introduce the approach into the UK as a valuable contribution to the existing range of treatments.

Jul
08
2010

Berkshire announces new clinically-based MSc programme for Personality Disorder

Berkshire Complex Needs Network is pleased to announce a new training programme – MSc in Psychological Interventions with Personality Disorder.

Jul
05
2010

Checkout a Borderline Personality Disorder documentary on the Emergence Facebook page

“Back from the Edge” is a 48-minute documentary film produced by the Peabody Award-winning Lichtenstein Creative Media. The documentary can be found on the Emergence Facebook page.
The documentary claims to be the first to feature people who have recovered from Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD), along with five experts in the field : Wayne Fenton, John [...]

Jun
21
2010

Article in Society Guardian singles out MST Brandon Centre project

The Brandon Centre, and the MST random control trial, is singled out as a a good example of a charity providing evidence of its impact and therefore in a position to support the government’s ‘big society’.

Jun
21
2010

‘Treating Personality Disorder’ – a new book published by Routledge Mental Health

New book: ‘Treating Personality Disorder – creating robust services for people with complex mental health needs’. Edited by Naomi Murphy and Des McVey.

Jun
08
2010

‘Complex families:multisystemic solutions’ conference

The ‘Complex families:multisystemic solutions’ conference being held on July 7, 2010, will focus on the current findings from research and practice in relation to Multisystemic Therapy (MST) in the UK and internationally.