Chair: Dr Paul Matthews Vice-chair: Dr Molly Bredin
Aims
- To maintain a peer group / network of college members interested in the aetiology, treatment and management of personality disorders in adults and emergent personality disorders in adolescents
- To promote learning and information sharing on the management of personality disorders
- To help support educational and training initiatives for clinicians working with personality disorders
- To advocate for better service provision for adults with a personality disorder or emergent personality disorders amongst adolescents
To view the Terms of Reference, click here
Dates of upcoming meetings in 2023
- Friday, 10th March
- Friday, 16th June
- Friday, 29th September
- Friday, 1st December
Meetings take place at 1.30pm online via zoom.
College Faculty/SIG and committee meetings can garner 1 internal or external CPD credit per meeting up to a maximum of 10 credits per PCS year.
To contact the group
To contact the group or if you would like to join, please email Helen Murray, hmurray@irishpsychiatry.ie or call (01) 6618450.
Publications of Interest
Parenting and Personality Disorder Clinical and Child Protection Implications – 2015 British Journal of Psychiatry Advances Vol 21 Issue 1
The Nature of Personality Disorder – 2012 British Journal of Psychiatry Advances Vol 18 Issue 3
Epistemic Petrification and the Restoration of Epistemic Trust: A New Conceptualization of Borderline Personality Disorder and its Psychosocial Treatment– 2015 Journal of Personality Disorders, 29(5), 575-609
Borderline Personality Disorder: Recognition and Management – 2009 NICE Guidelines nice.org.uk/guidance/cg78
Personality disorder: No longer a diagnosis of exclusion – Policy implementation guidance for the development of services for people with personality disorder. National Institute for Mental Health in England, 2003.
Clinical Practice Guideline for the Management of Borderline Personality Disorder 2012 Australian Government National Health and Medical Research Council
Clinical Practice Guideline for the Management of Borderline Personality Disorder: Appendices 2012 Australian Government National Health and Medical Research Council
A formulated care plan approach to caring for people with borderline personality disorder in a community mental health service setting – June 1997 – Clinical Psychology Forum 104
Cognitive analytic therapy (CAT): a therapy in a medium secure hospital for a mentally disordered offender with a personality disorder – The British Journal of Forensic Practice, Volume 10, Issue 3 – November 2008
Cognitive analytic therapy for offenders The Journal of Forensic Psychiatry Volume 9, No 3, December 1998, 629 – 642
Early intervention for adolescents with borderline personality disorder: quasi-experimental comparison with treatment as usual – 2009 The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists
Psychotherapy for Borderline Personality Disorder: Mentalization Based Therapy and Cognitive Analytic Therapy Compared International Review of Psychiatry, February 2007; 19 (1): 51-62
The HYPE Clinic: An Early Intervention Service for Borderline Personality Disorder Journal of Psychiatric Practice Volume 15, No 3