This project has now been completed.  We are seeking ongoing funding.  Meanwhile if you are interested in having your team trained please contact us.

Stage 3 - BPD Core Competency Workshops & Train the Trainer Workshops

The BPD Core Competency workshops aim to upskill clinicians and service providers to recognise, respond to and treat people living with BPD and be inclusive of family and friends. Clinicians can effect positive changes in people with BPD and their families at every single clinical interaction whether at community mental health facilities, private psychology clinics, emergency departments, general practice, private psychiatry practices, inpatient mental health facilities or mental health support service settings.

This project has now been completed.  We are seeking ongoing funding.  Meanwhile if you are interested in having your team trained please contact us.

The workshops cover the core competencies that clinicians require to enable them to effectively work with people with BPD and are as follows:

1. Understanding the diagnosis of BPD (including symptoms, prevalence, causes and evidence based treatments)
2. Co-existing disorders in BPD
3. Treatment principles
4. Treatment structure
5. Therapeutic relationship
6. Skills development focus
7. Partnering with families, partners and carers
8. Working with suicidal and non-suicidal self-injury behaviours
9. Clinician self – awareness
10. Focus on recovery in BPD

Ongoing mentoring and supervision will be offered to participants for the life of the project.

Stages 3 and 4 of the BPD National Strategy has been developed by a partnership between Australian BPD Foundation and Spectrum Personality Disorder Service. This project was undertaken with funding from the National Mental Health Commission.

Further funding will be sought to deliver more workshops across Australia.