Understanding Personality Disorders

A single-day course developed by MOAT: Mental Health Services, to advance participants’ learning beyond MHFA, including some of the more complex mental health presentations.

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Areas covered:

Childhood development:

  • How early development templates inform our learning

  • Shifting negative templates towards the positive

  • The development of empathy and guilt, and how to support this process

How trauma affects brain development:

  • The layers of the brain and their general functions

  • How stress impacts on our ability to remain cognitive

  • Strategies to remain in the cognitive brain in times of stress

  • Multi-sensory de-escalation theory and practical strategies

  • Practical activities to help the traumatised brain to heal

Personality Disorders:

  • Common features related to all personality disorders

  • Causes of personality disorders

  • The ten personality disorders – features and possible causes

  • Key features of Antisocial Personality Disorder

  • Borderline Personality Disorder –

    • common features and why they happen

    • early developmental aspects

    • how we learn values, beliefs, emotional regulation and other foundation building blocks

    • the effect of abuse and neglect on child development

  • Treatment of Borderline Personality Disorder

Self-Harm:

  • Defining self-harming behaviour

  • Prevalence estimates

  • Types of self-harming behaviour

  • Reasons for self-harm

  • Risk for people engaging in self-harming behaviours

  • Self-harm intervention – what to do

  • Interventions to avoid and why