Steve Pearce was elected as new president of The British and Irish Group for the Study of Personality Disorder (BIGSPD) at the organisation’s 12th Annual Conference held in March 2012. A consultant psychiatrist and clinical lead for the Oxford Complex Needs Service, Steve said: “I’m looking forward to my term as president and would like [...]
Mental health and Justice is a major two year research project funded by the Big Lottery Fund and led by Victim Support. The research is investigating whether people with mental health problems are more likely to be victims of crime. It is also exploring the barriers people with mental health problems face to reporting crime [...]
A problem that has confronted all specialist personality disorder services is how to achieve a representative proportion of black and minority ethnic service users for the population they serve. A new service in the East End of London identified this problem in their study. Consultant Psychiatrist, Dr Tennyson Lee (from the Tower Hamlets PD Service) [...]
A ‘psychologically informed environment’, or PIE, is the first of many new concepts that have spun off from the Royal College of Psychiatrists’ Enabling Environments (EE) initiative. Based on the early developments in the therapeutic community movement, and adapting these values and principle to the 21st century world of community mental health, the EE initiative [...]
Are you interested in taking part in a study looking at the experience of recovery for people with borderline personality disorder? Victoria Green, a student in the last year of clinical psychology training at Leeds Institute of Health Sciences (Faculty of Medicine and Health/Leeds University), is undertaking a thesis on the subject and she needs [...]
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 [...]
HSJ has announced the dates for its Mental Health Congress – November 9-10, 2010
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.
New book: ‘Treating Personality Disorder – creating robust services for people with complex mental health needs’. Edited by Naomi Murphy and Des McVey.
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.