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Working with Complexity associated with Borderline Personality Disorder
Working with Complexity associated with Borderline Personality Disorder
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Online
About this event
These are free events designed for members of the public clinical mental health workforce in Victoria, (staff employed at Area Mental Health Services, Forensicare or mental health staff from RCH) and lived experience workforces (LEW) working in either public clinical or community mental health state-funded roles. Other workforce in partner organisations, such as AOD organisations or ACCHOs, may sometimes be eligible. Please note, if you do register for an event and it is not clear you are part of the intended audience, your registration will be confirmed two weeks prior to the event start date, or earlier.
Note: Spectrum has a lived experience workforce who are consulted in the development and delivery of Spectrum training materials.
The Working with Complexity Training has been developed for mental health clinicians working with people with BPD.
This training involves a combination of didactic, dialogical and experiential training styles and activities, highlighting the following practice issues for effective support of people with a BPD diagnosis: the DSM-5 and ICD-11 diagnoses, a developmental understanding of BPD the complexities entailed by working effectively within and between teams and services that support people with BPD, the interactions between co-existing conditions with BPD, maintaining a recovery, person-focused approach when working with severe risk, common treatment principles and skills, creating a therapeutic frame and continuous reflective practice.
On completion of this workshop participants will be able to:
- Work with BPD and its co-occurring physical and psychological presentations in the current Australian context, utilising the ICD-11 and DSM-5 frameworks
- Utilise the principles of working with BPD and complexity to create structure and focus for interventions that can be applied in their novel settings
- Recognise and work with complexity within and between systems (emergency services, mental health services, inpatient units/ long term care facilities, child protection, justice/ forensic system, NDIA/NDIS) and the broader system at large
- Recognise the links between complexity and risk in working with BPD often founded in attachment and relational trauma and how literacy in these matters can assist with the development of appropriate treatment and recovery options
- Recognise and respond appropriately to high risk behaviours including frequent non-suicidal self-injury / suicidality and the need for inpatient admission and extended care settings
- Recognise the influence of working with BPD on themselves as both a person and a practitioner, particularly with regards to the use of self, transference and counter transference and working in one on one and team contexts.
Pre-Requisites: Previous experience or training in working with people with BPD, e.g. Foundation Training with Working with People with BPD. The training will not cover foundational information in detail and it is expected you will have some understanding around the biopsychosocial theory of the diagnosis of BPD as well as basic treatment principles.
Delivery Mode – Online via Zoom
Presenter:
Spectrum Personality Disorder Service
Marianne Weddell is Clinical Manager of Spectrum and Clinical Psychologist with 20 years experience in public and private setting treating a wide range of disorders, managing teams, training staff and supervising/mentoring clinicians. She has a special interest and significant experience with borderline personality disorder, in particular developing service and family systems to work effectively in this space. She believes in therapy as a tool to help people understand themselves, their passions and build a life worth living.
Dr Samantha Tabak is a senior clinical psychologist and board-accredited supervisor. She has over a decade of experience working in Child and Youth Mental Health services, psychiatric triage, intensive outreach teams, and early psychosis, utilizing psychotherapy frameworks such as MBT, DBT, workforce development, and Open Dialogue-informed therapy, and is currently part of the ACT clinic and the Complex Care Service at Spectrum. She also works with young people and their families in private practice. Samantha believes in a person-centred and collaborative approach to treatment and support.
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