Working Positively with Personality Disorder in Secure Settings: A Practitioner's Perspective - Brossura

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ISBN 10: 0470683791 ISBN 13: 9780470683798

Casa editrice: Wiley, 2010

Riassunto

Working Positively with Personality Disorder in Secure Settings provides a positive, compassionate and evidence-based guide to working with patients with personality disorders.

• Unique in both its coverage and in its positive and evidence-based approach to working with patients with personality disorders
• Written with a practical focus by experienced practitioners in the field
• Offers a broad approach, with contributions from forensic and clinical psychologists, nurses, and therapists
• Covers therapy and therapeutic relationships, and issues of supervision, workforce development, treatment evaluation, team dynamics and managing boundaries
• Includes a strong patient focus and a number of personal accounts from patients who have received therapy themselves

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Recensione:

This book provides a timely reminder of the progress thathas been made in working positively and therapeutically withpersonality disordered people in secure mental health settings. Theeditors and contributors have done an excellent job incommunicating issues that arise at the clinical coal–face. Highlyrecommended.
Professor Kevin Howells, Professor of ForensicClinical Psychology, Institute of Mental Health and NottinghamUniversity, UK

This book is essential reading for practitioners andservice managers, researchers and even service users in facilitiesfor people with personality disorder in forensic mentalhealth, prison and probation.  Using the Personality DisorderService at Rampton Hospital as its focus, this book examines everyaspect of the organised therapeutic response to personalitydisordered offenders from changing patterns in referralsand care pathways to evidence–based assessments and treatments;from therapeutic engagement and style to boundaries; from workforceplanning and development to the service user experience. This is atreasure chest of essential guidance from those in a position tolead the way.
Dr Caroline Logan, Greater Manchester West MentalHealth NHS Foundation Trust and University of Manchester, UK

L'autore:

Phil Willmot is a Consultant Forensic and Clinical Psychologist with the Personality Disorder Directorate at Rampton Hospital, Nottinghamshire, and a Senior Fellow of the Institute of Mental Health. He has over 20 years’ experience of working with personality disorder in forensic settings in prison and healthcare environments. He specialises in the assessment and the treatment of offenders with a diagnosis of personality disorder.

Dr Neil Gordon is a Psychotherapist who works as a senior clinician and supervisor in a high secure forensic setting. He is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, and a visiting Senior Lecturer at Sheffield Hallam University. He is currently seconded as a Senior Fellow to the Institute of Mental Health, Nottingham University, where he is the Head of Doctoral Programmes and Masters Programme Lead for the National Personality Disorder Knowledge and Understanding Framework (KUF) recently commissioned by the Department of Health and the Ministry of Justice.

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• Editore: Wiley
• Data di pubblicazione: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0470683791
• ISBN 13: 9780470683798
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 288
• Redattore: Willmot Phil