Working with Personality Disorder: Developing Understanding and Effectiveness

The principal aim of the Personality Disorder Knowledge and Understanding Framework programme is to provide training that will lead to an improvement in service provision that will benefit service users. This is most directly achieved through practice-based training with skill-based learning outcomes. A programme that is largely practice-based ensures that learning will automatically be contextualised. The programme is designed to suit professionals in both forensic and non-forensic settings.

The second element of the KUF framework is the undergraduate framework and is made up of nine modules. All nine modules can be taken as stand alone modules or alternatively as a full degree programme, which on completion would lead to a BSc in Working with Personality Disorder: Developing understanding and effectiveness.

The nine modules are:

Developing a shared understanding of personality disorder

Challenges of personality disorder: an interpersonal perspective

Personality disorder: across multi-agency contexts

Working positively with personality disorder: building lives, challenging stigma

Responding to issues of complexity and risk

Responding effectively: making sense of reactions and relationships

Facilitating positive changes: working with people and contexts

Intervening effectively; management treatment and support

Effective teamwork, supervision and models for service delivery: developing context sensitive approaches

The overall aim of the programme is to help improve the quality of service user experience, by developing practitioner attitudes, skills and behaviours. The programme aims to do this by:

Developing the knowledge, skills and understanding of workers dealing with the challenges of personality disorder
Challenging stigma and negative attitudes towards personality disorder through raising awareness and developing the empathic responses of frontline workers
Providing an educational experience that focuses on the needs and experiences of service users
Highlighting the interpersonal nature of working with personality disorder and focus on the personal and professional development of students
Ensuring informed and responsive leadership and management
Developing improved interagency and inter-professional collaboration
Equipping workers with the necessary knowledge and skills that help assess and manage risk in relation to complex presentations
Developing an appreciation of the importance of effective team work and staff support when working with the challenges of personality disorder
Providing students with the necessary skills and knowledge that will enable them to manage, intervene and offer support to service users and their families.

To register on this programme, please contact

Email: julie.lawson@nottshc.nhs.uk

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