Working with Personality Disorder: The ADDRESS™ Course
"Really enjoyed the course, extremely relevant to my setting. Gave me inspiration to keep working with personality disorders."
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In 3 days you will cover a great deal:
- The concept of personality and personality disorder
- What makes you think this person is suffering from a personality disorder? Identifying the key attributes that are problematic for the person
- Forming a conceptualisation: what lies behind the problem and what is maintaining it?
- Obtaining data and analysing it. When and where does the problem occur: triggers and consequences
- Generating insight in the person that certain aspects of what they do and/or the way the see things is causing problems. Raising their own observations to the status of knowledge. Includes conveying the case conceptualisation to the person concerned
- Plan a better strategy for the person responding to the situations that cause problems for them. Includes the possibility of teaching new skills such as social skills, distress tolerance, relaxation techniques, empathy increase and others. Appropriate formats (1:1 or group) for each of these tasks
- How to support the person in implementing the plan. Includes different modes of working, such as 1:1, telephone support, group formats, etc.
- How to help the person sustain the progress they achieve by developing and implementing a maintenance plan
- Building and maintaining the relationship. Including the problems associated with different types of personality disorder, and their resolution. Relation-fractures and repairs thereof
- Validation and the nurturing of the person’s self efficacy. ‘How to do’ these elements that are key to personality disorder
- How to facilitate the person’s learning from experience. Part of personality disorder often involves poor assimilation of experience and yet ‘learning from your mistakes’ can rapidly erode fragile self-efficacy. Powerful strategies for resolving this conundrum
- Supporting yourself: for your own good and the good of your colleagues and those you work with. Personality disorder is an area that is demanding both technically and emotionally, so to have proper support ‘built in’ is important
- Case studies: prepared studies to analyse and ‘solve’; applying ADDRESS to your own current cases
What this course will do for you:
It will provide you with (a) a proper understanding of personality disorder and (b) a clear and systematic sequence of steps to consistently deliver successful interventions.
It will equip you with skills that are essential to working with personality disorder, many of which can be transferred to other areas of your professional and personal life.
Who should attend:
All professionals who work with people diagnosed as ‘personality disordered’, whether in community, inpatient or secure settings. Appropriate professional groups are: psychiatric nurses, social workers, occupational therapists, psychologists and psychiatrists.
Up to 16 people may attend this 3-day course for a fixed fee. This price includes all tuition, handouts, tutors travel and accommodation.
All you need to provide is a good teaching room and refreshments.
See our Training Planner for more information.