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