The Management and Treatment of Personality Disorder: Evidence Updates

The Management and Treatment of Personality Disorder: Evidence Updates

Conference theme

This conference will help healthcare and other professionals to maximize their treatment impact by learning about the current evidence-based best practices for working with people with personality disorder. Through presentations by and discussions with experts in the field, delegates will gain a greater understanding of the issues relevant to the management and treatment of this client group.

The conference format offers opportunities for delegates to ask questions about issues important to them, and those attending should come prepared to raise points for open discussion. The intended outcome of this event is that delegates will be better informed about personality disorder and so will be able to design and deliver interventions that are of maximum benefit for service users.

The conference will highlight the following:

• The health burden of personality disorder
• What works with personality disorder
• Pharmacotherapy with personality disorder
• Service user led initiatives
• Competencies for working with people with personality disorder
• Perspectives from service users
• The therapeutic value of creative approaches in treatment
• Integrated treatment

Chaired by:

Professor Mary McMurran  University of Nottingham Opening address by Chair

Speakers & topics:

	Dr Paul Moran  Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London Why treat: The health burden of PD (prevalence and costs)
	Professor Kate Davidson  University of Glasgow Evidence-based interventions: What works with PD?
	Dr Birgit Völlm  University of Nottingham Pharmacotherapy with personality disorder
	Professor Peter Tyrer  Imperial College London Directions in diagnosis
	Professor Tony Roth  Joint Course Director, Doctorate in Clinical Psychology, University College, London Competencies for working with people with personality disorder
	Miss Kath Lovell  Managing Director, Emergence, London Competencies for working with people with personality disorder
	Professor Conor Duggan  University of Nottingham & Partnerships in Care Treatment of Personality Disorder: Some unanswered questions from the coal face