Level 6 Single module (20 credits) Personality Disorder

  • Part-time study available
  • NHS Funding and bursaries available
  • Duration :

    Part-time, one semester, intake February

3 good reasons to study Personality Disorder at Salford:

  • Meet the needs of clients with complex needs/personality disorder and their significant others
  • Critically appraise therapeutic practice with people who have complex needs/personality disorder
  • Delivered by staff who are subject experts in their field

You can take this course as a single module for continuing professional development or as part of BSc (Hons) Enhancing Professional Health Care Practice

This module will look explore:

  • Definitions and deconstructing labels of people with complex needs/personality disorder
  • Theories of personality disorder and link with trauma
  • Social exclusion and the cycle of rejection
  • Boundaries and collaboration
  • Livesleys' framework: integrative and eclectic approaches
  • Assessment of personality disorder, prioritising of needs
  • Overview of interventions for clients with complex needs
  • Staff reactions and personality disorder
  • Crisis intervention
  • CBT and people with complex needs/personality disorder
  • CAT and people with complex needs/personality disorder
  • Family and carers issues
  • Service user perspectives
  • Psychodynamic skills and theories and therapeutic communities
  • Critical appraisal of systems and management of change

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