Personality Disorder

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

Course details

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