Workshop on CBT for Personality Disorders
Professor Kate Davidson, University of Glasgow
Monday, 31 October, 2016

 

This one-day workshop is suitable for clinicians trained in CBT and who have experience of working with people with a range of mental health problems. The workshop is designed to update clinicians’ knowledge of personality disorders and to give them some skills to deliver CBTpd under supervision.

The main aims of the workshop are to enable clinicians to:

1. Have enough knowledge of the development of personality disorder to formulate problems within a CBTpd model
2. Convey the formulation in a narrative form to the client
3. Develop an appropriate therapy plan, including skills to regulate emotions & reduce impulsive self-harm behaviour

CBTpd is designed for the treatment personality disorders in out-patient mental health community settings. The therapy has undergone rigorous evaluation particularly using participants diagnosed with BPD and Antisocial PD and has been assessed in single case studies and in randomised controlled trials BOSCOT, MASCOT and ENGAGE (Davidson et al., 2006, 2009, 2013, 2014). The workshop will address a range of personality disorders, but draw upon extensive examples from BPD and Antisocial PD.