...Hege Myklebust; Hannah Gaffney; Sarah Parkinson Purpose Research demonstrates that health-care staff can hold negative attitudes toward people diagnosed with “Personality Disorders” (PdxPD), which can negatively impact health-care outcomes. Evidence for staff training is inconsistent with limited...

... of personality disorder [PD; borderline personalty disorder/emotionally unstable personality disorder (BPD/EUPD)]. This study aims to improve staff training. Design/methodology/approach A mixed-methods evaluation demonstrated the benefits of offering 495 staff three-day trainings with a clinician-designed...

...Lindsay Jones; Phyllis Annesley Purpose An innovative training approach was developed to enable staff working with complex cases, including personality disorder, to reflect on and work with the interpersonal dynamics of their interactions with service users. The aim of this approach is to support...

... psychoeducation intervention for carers of people with mental health difficulties in secondary mental health services. This initiative was developed to support and educate carers of family members who had mental health difficulties including psychosis, personality disorder, and who were in treatment...

...Gary Lamph; Mark Sampson; Debra Smith; Gary Williamson; Mark Guyers Purpose Personality disorder is reported to elicit strong emotional responses and negative attitudes in mental health staff (Bodner et al., 2015). The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of the design...

.../approach – In total, 181 mental health professionals completed three day KUF awareness-level training to promote understanding and positive attitudes in working with personality disorder (PD). Attitudes to PD were evaluated using the PD – Knowledge and Skills Questionnaire (Bolton et al., 2010...

... relationships”, “staff diversities”, “service user backgrounds”, “variability in service users’ presentations”, “service users with personality disorder are problematic” and “nurses do not use attachment” emerged from the data. The nurses used heuristic models of attachment-related behaviour and they lacked...

...Samantha Cooke; Anna Daiches; Emma Hickey Purpose – As part of an attitudinal shift surrounding personality disorder stigma, a training package termed the Knowledge and Understanding Framework (KUF) is delivered in collaboration between experts by experience (EBE) and professionals. The purpose...

...Gary Lamph; Cameron Latham; Debra Smith; Andrew Brown; Joanne Doyle; Mark Sampson Purpose – An innovative training initiative to raise the awareness of personality disorder and enable more effective working with people with personality disorder who come into contact with the wider multi-agency...

...Catherine Woodward; Alan Jones; Tasim Martin It is recognised that training is required for staff working with people with a diagnosis of personality disorder, as it poses challenges requiring particular skills and abilities (National Institute for Mental Health in England, 2003a). The proposal...