MHT02 – Personality Disorder / EUPD Training

Personality Disorder psychology & psychiatry is a complex area of medicine. This workshop will help organisations and staff better-understand and manage the vulnerabilities and behaviours associated with the EUPD and Borderline Personality Disorder diagnosis.

It will improve client safety and staff interactions through a better understanding of client sensitivities, typical clinical traps and potential risk scenarios. It will improve interactions, advocacy and influence safeguarding in numerous ways.

The training considers personality disorder within the field of general psychiatry. Most individuals with EUPD diagnosis present with a range of mental health needs and comorbidities. Despite this, patients with ‘PD’ diagnosis may be excluded from certain services – they may experience discrimination due to the nature and confusion that surrounds their symptoms and behaviours. This training helps you challenge potential prejudice and to ensure that vulnerable patients receive the care they need.

We are the UK’s leading providers of personality disorder training. All training is delivered by psychiatry-trained facilitators.

Overview of the training

Understanding the psychological, emotional and behavioural vulnerabilities associated with Personality Disorder diagnosis
Better-understand the internalised world of an individual with personality disorder symptoms, particularly Borderline Personality Disorder / EUPD, Dissocial & Antisocial Personality Disorder
Understand attachment seeking in relation to self-harm risk
Knowledge, insights and formulations to improve understanding of common presentations, trigger events, common vulnerabilities, common perpetuating factors and protective factors that can mitigate risk.
Improved communication skills and relationships
Communication strategies and skills to better-support individuals vulnerable to BPD / EUPD. Improving the effectiveness of advice and strategies to support mental wellbeing, reduce self-defeating behaviours and improve outcomes for all
Risk stratification to improve general safeguarding
Skills to maintain boundaries and manage expectations whilst still maintaining healthy relationships
Skills to manage conflict to improve staff confidence and improve patient / staff relationships
Skills to improve patient safeguarding and safety planning
Advocacy skills – confidence to challenge any negative or prejudicial responses from support organisations and services
Associated externalising personality disorders and forensic risk factors, particularly the factors associated with violence risk where indicated
Risk assessment processes – Using the HCR-20 and other risk assessment models
Keeping staff safe – learning from other’s mistakes and developing a safe model of lone working, reporting and interjectional / communication models to support lone-working risk management
Understanding and recognising the symptoms associated with non-externalising personality disorders.

The training can include a more detailed focus on safeguarding and self-harm support if required. This commonly includes

Care planning and assessment of individuals vulnerable to self-harm risk
The functions of self-injury and its relationship with personality disorder and the risk factors for suicide – improving risk assessments and safety planning
Improving insights, communication skills and fine-tuning the suicide assessment conversation. Understanding the limitations and obligations of the NHS / CMHT / Local authority. Particularly in relation to capacity, right to privacy, duty of care to protect life and the Mental Health Act 1989
Escalating concerns to CMHT, the safeguarding roles of the AMHP and the Police

This training is delivered by psychiatry-trained experts

This training is delivered by facilitators trained in psychiatry. We specialise in psychiatric illness and abnormal psychology, personality disorder and stress-related illness training. We offer a wide-ranging, multi-disciplinary knowledge and skills with high quality, integrated evidence-based training that you can trust

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