Personality disorder awareness
Develop understanding and practical interventions to support individuals with life difficulties associated with personality disorder.
This is a 1/2 day in house course (we come to you).
Understand what personality disorders are, the possible causes, 'symptoms' and associated life difficulties in order to provide services and support that can make a positive difference to people's lives.
Drawing upon personal experiences of receiving a personality disorder diagnosis, the course offers up to date evidence and relevant practical interventions to promote recovery and wellbeing.
Currently only available as a 1/2 day in-house course (we come to you)
Also currently available (online for teams).
Course aims
To increase awareness of personality disorder and the evidence based approaches that can be helpful, with an emphasis on the perspectives of people with ‘lived experience’
Course objectives
By the end of the course participants will have had opportunities to:
- Discuss and understand the term and experience of personality disorder
- Explore attitudes about personality disorder
- Consider the proposed causes of personality disorder and the implications
- Find out about the different types of personality disorders with a specific focus on Borderline Personality Disorder
- Consider evidence based approaches that promote recovery and wellbeing
- Recognise the importance of a psychologically informed team approach
Venue info:
In-house courses (we come to you)
We would ask you to arrange a suitable venue and refreshments for the training. Contact us for more information.
Trainer: Suzanne Pearson
"Brilliant facilitators; good tools and tips - have taken away lots of knowledge."
ACE Caseworker, One25 Project
"Tools, ways to analyse situations, positive approach, handouts, lived experience. Brilliant and informative."
Support Assistant, Second Step
"I found the whole content of the course useful. In particular the classification of personality disorders. Useful in my area of work, and now I recognise the difficulty in diagnosis in alcohol dependence. Brilliant content. Brilliant trainer. Very useful information and delivered with good knowledge, appropriateness and relevance."
Alcohol Liaison Nurse, UHNS
"Honestly - all of it. Especially useful to learn about schemas. Very good, I would recommend to anyone."
Relief Support Worker, Second Step
"I found this day very informative, helpful and it has definitely changed the way I can work with service users. A lot of ground to cover and I thought this was facilitated very well, with good emphasis on group discussion which is always better than just being 'talked at'."
"The whole day - a great learning curve. I hadn't much knowledge prior to the day and have got a huge amount to go away with and think over."
