Overview

The Personality Disorder Awareness course is aimed at all staff working in the care environment who work with older people with personality disorders. A general understanding of the issues associated with personality disorders will be established. Attendees will gain under-pinning knowledge of the below issues and therefore will be able to put this into practice where necessary.

Outline of Programme

• Definitions of ‘Personality Disorder’
• History of personality disorder
• Types of self harm
• How do personality disorders aris
• The problems created for staff
• Approaches to working with clients with a personality disorder
• Treatments

Assessment:
The course is delivered in 2 hours and Candidates must demonstrate a willingness to learn along interaction of group activities.

Cost:
Our Personality Awareness training courses are competitively priced and we guarantee to beat any equivalent training quote.

SPECIAL OFFER- If three, two hour care sector courses are run on the same day at the same venue the third course is free of charge. This could be three of the same courses or a combination of three different ones.

Important information
The training venue should be quiet and undisturbed.
Staff should not be expected to be on duty
Staff attending should remain for the entire length of the session