Working Positively with Personality Disorder in Secure Settings: A Practitioner's Perspective
Phil Willmot · Neil Gordon
Oct 2010 · John Wiley & Sons
Ebook
288
Pages
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About this ebook
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
About the author
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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