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 [...]
Dr Rex Haigh, a Berkshire based psychiatrist, is this week in Kabul, Afghanistan, working with Dr Yousuf Rahimi to help him set up training programmes based on therapeutic community principles. Dr Yousuf Rahimi, also a Berkshire psychiatrist, has received a 1.5m Euro grant to help rebuild psychiatric services in Kabul over 18 months with the [...]
A practitioners guide to working with offenders with personality disorders has been produced by the National Offender Management Service (NOMS) in partnership with the Department of Health. It is designed to provide practical, hands-on advice to offender managers and other frontline staff working with offenders with highly complex needs. The guide will be particularly useful [...]
It would be hard to think of a time when the role of staff supervision was more important in supporting and developing staff to deliver high quality complex services in the context of external regulation, organisational change and budgetary pressures. More than ever staff across health and social care, adult and children’s services, statutory and [...]
Events for mental health professionals and multi-disciplinary health and social care staff working in mental health.
From the Thames Valley Initiative stable a new service has quietly been setting up over the last year.
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.
Berkshire Complex Needs Network is pleased to announce a new training programme – MSc in Psychological Interventions with Personality Disorder.
Over 250 people came together at the International Convention Centre, Birmingham, today to celebrate developments in the personality disorder field at the 1st National Personality Disorder Congress. Download presentations from day one.
Information about the implementation of the Knowledge and Understanding Framework (KUF), designed to support people to work more effectively with personality disorder.