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Working Positively with Personality Disorder in Secure Settings

A Practitioner's Perspective
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Working Positively with Personality Disorder in Secure Settings offers a compassionate and evidence-based guide for professionals supporting patients with personality disorders. Written by experienced practitioners, the book covers therapeutic approaches, team dynamics, supervision, workforce development, and treatment evaluation. It emphasises positive engagement, including patient perspectives and personal therapy accounts, making it a comprehensive resource in forensic and clinical contexts.
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This book is ideal for healthcare professionals, therapists, nurses, clinical and forensic psychologists, and anyone working in secure settings with individuals with personality disorders.

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In recent years, a number of new therapeutic approaches to personality disorder have been developed. This book, written by practitioners working in an established high secure setting, provides a practical and accessible account of common issues with offenders diagnosed with personality disorder.

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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.

Series: The Wiley Series in Personality Disorders

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780470683798

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 22 October 2010

Country: United States

Imprint: John Wiley & Sons Inc

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 15.0mm

Width: 169.0mm

Height: 244.0mm

Weight: 490g

Pages: 288

About the Author

Phil Willmot is a Consultant Forensic and ClinicalPsychologist with the Personality Disorder Directorate at RamptonHospital, Nottinghamshire, and a Senior Fellow of the Institute ofMental Health. He has over 20 years experience of workingwith personality disorder in forensic settings in prison andhealthcare environments. He specialises in the assessment and thetreatment of offenders with a diagnosis of personality disorder. Dr Neil Gordon is a Psychotherapist who works as a seniorclinician and supervisor in a high secure forensic setting. He is aFellow of the Higher Education Academy, and a visiting SeniorLecturer at Sheffield Hallam University. He is currently secondedas a Senior Fellow to the Institute of Mental Health, NottinghamUniversity, where he is the Head of Doctoral Programmes and MastersProgramme Lead for the National Personality Disorder Knowledge andUnderstanding Framework (KUF) recently commissioned by theDepartment of Health and the Ministry of Justice.

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