10:00am-2:00pm 12 February 2025
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February 12, 2025 - 10:00
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February 12, 2025 - 14:00
Professionals are increasingly working with people who have Personality Disorders (some diagnosed, some not), and who can find it hard to access support. Some service users may turn to alcohol or drugs as a coping mechanism, which in turn can provide a further barrier in accessing services.
Personality disorders include Borderline Personality Disorder, Avoidant Personality Disorder, Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder, Antisocial Personality Disorder and Paranoid Personality Disorder.
It can be difficult for professionals to know how to make sense of, cope with, and effectively support, the presentations they encounter. Personality disorder is a much used and poorly understood term. What does it actually mean? What might I encounter in someone with Personality Disorder diagnosis? How can I support someone with a personality disorder diagnosis to access relevant support? And what can I do that does or doesn’t help?
While some service users may have a diagnosis, others may be undiagnosed or awaiting assessment. This can be a further complicating factor for professionals.
This training will give an introduction to 11 personality disorders and diagnoses, along with guidelines about particular approaches which may be useful in each approach.
It will also introduce the Power Threat Meaning Framework, an alternative conceptualisation of mental distress.
We will learn from experts by experience and from evidence based approaches about what is helpful and what is unhelpful.
The training will conclude with a ‘problem clinic’ where participants can bring anonymised cases, challenges or questions.
“Felicity is an incredible trainer, so engaging and knowledgeable.”
“How professionals can have a relationship with someone who does not even want to be involved with them is one of the most difficult, important and yet under analysed dilemmas in social work.”
Harry Ferguson,Tom Disney,Lisa Warwick,Jadwiga Leigh,Tarsem Singh Cooner & Liz Beddoe Pages 19-37 | Published online: 12 Nov 2020
Hostile relationships in social work practice: anxiety, hate and conflict in long-term work with involuntary service usersFormat of the training
- This training takes place live online
- Details of the sessions, with approximate timings, are given in the Agenda section
- All sessions will offer an opportunity for questions
What you will get from us
- Once you have booked, you will be emailed a brief confirmation.
- Approximately 1-2 weeks prior to the start of the training we will email joining instructions which will include your joining instructions and PowerPoint slides.
- After you have completed the training, we will email a Certificate of Attendance for your CPD records
Technical heads up
- If you are part of a large organisation, please check with your IT department that there are no firewalls which will prevent you from accessing the training.
- We’re here to help, so if you have any problems, just call us or email us (contacts below)
Please feel free to telephone us on 0115 916 3104 or email us
Delegate fee:
£75+ VAT = £90
Team of 3 £210+ VAT = £252 (non-cancellable)
Team of 5 £350+ VAT = £420 (non-cancellable)
Booking Terms and Conditions
- The latest date for cancellation of standard rate places is 2 weeks prior to the first day of the training event; an administration fee of 25% will be charged for cancellation
- Substitutions will be accepted, but these must be notified in writing PRIOR to the first day of the training event
- It is the responsibility of each participant to ensure that they set aside time to access the online sessions; unexpected work or personal events will not entitle the delegate to access later events without re-booking
- Cancellations should be made in writing to conferences@ccclimited.org.uk up to two weeks before the start of the event and will be acknowledged
Please note that slightly different T&Cs will apply to large group bookings.
Want to book a larger group (over 10)?
- Discount on the standard price available for these dates
- Arrange different dates to suit your group
- Training can be delivered in your workplace or live online just for your group
Call 0115 916 3104 or email conferences@ccclimited.org.uk to arrange
Felicity Reed is an Adult Psychotherapist and UKCP accredited Supervisor with a background in understanding and supporting people who experience mental distress in complex circumstances, such as in homelessness, substance abusing, criminal justice and emergency service contexts.
She has worked for almost twenty years as a practitioner, leader and service designer, creating new ways to meet the needs of those who do not fit easily into traditional support and who, as a consequence, may present with challenging, distressing or offending behaviours.
Felicity currently works for Enfield Council with responsibility for rolling out Community Hubs. She previously worked for PAUSE in Southwark, supporting women with complex needs, many of whom have had multiple children taken into care.
AGENDA
10.00 – 10.05
Welcome and introduction
10.05 – 10.30
11 Personality Disorder Diagnoses
10.35 – 10.40
A special mention: Complex Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
10.40 – 11.05
Power Threat Meaning Framework
11.05 – 12.20
What can help? (Experts by Experience and Evidence Base)
12.20 – 12.30
Brief break
12.30– 1.15
Accessing Services and Support
1.15 – 2.00
Problem Clinic – bring questions, challenges, and your own case examples
- Adults’ social workers
- Children and family social workers
- Housing officers from local authorities and housing associations
- Police, community protection, and ASB officers
- Job Centres Schools
- NHS community and hospital staff
- Mental health services
- Drug and alcohol services
- Domestic abuse services
- Voluntary sector agencies
- Homeless services
- Customer services