Scottish Personality Disorder Network

23 March 2006

10:00 - 16:00

Event: Launch of the Scottish Personality Disorder Network

Venue: Edinburgh Training Centre

Presentations:

• "Opening Address"                                                                                                             (Lewis Macdonald, Minister for Health and Community Care)
• “Mainstreaming PD: The Critical Importance Of Workforce and Training Strategy”         (Dr Marian Duggan, Co-Lead National PD Development Programme in England)
• “Research Issues in PD”                                                                                                 (Professor Ian Reid, Professor of Mental Health, Aberdeen University)
• "Population Study Dumfies and Galloway"                                                                      (Allyson Turnbull, Trainee Clinical Psychologist, Joyce Mourik - VOX, Trish Burnet, Scottish             Association for Mental Health and Isabella Goldie, Mental Health Foundation)

Workshops:

• Research                                                                                                                              (Professor Kate Davidson)
• Users                                                                                                                                   (Trish Burnet, Scottish Association for Mental Health)
• Local Developments                                                                                                           (Lesley Brady, Ayrshire & Arran, Charlotte Lee, Argyll & Bute, Sheelagh Rodgers, Highland)
• PD Homeless Projects - "Homeless PD services in Scotland - works in progress"                (Andy Williams, Glasgow and Adam Burley, Edinburgh)
• Workforce Planning & Training Strategy                                                                              (Fiona Myers and Pippa Coutts, Scottish Development Centre)

23 June 2006

10:00 - 16:00

Venue: Aberdeen Exhibition and Conference Centre.

Presentations:

• "NHS QIS on Integrated Care Pathways in Mental Health"                                               (Dr Ali El Ghorr, ICP Programme, Programme Resource Manager, Edinburgh)
• "See the Person in Personality Disorders"                                                                               (Dr John McGinley, Director of Psychological Therapies, Carstairs State Hospital)
• "Setting Up a DBT Pilot in Forth Valley -trials and errors"                                                   (Dr Michael Gotz, Consultant Psychiatrist and Leanne Gauld, Day Hospital Staff Nurse)
• "Service User Involvement"                                                                                               (Karen Nicoll)

Workshops:

• "NHS QIS Integrated Care Pathways in Mental Health"                                                       (Dr Ali El Ghorr, ICP Programme Resource Manager and Rosie Cameron, National ICP                  Co-ordinator - NHS QIS, Edinburgh)
• "Covert versus overt PD diagosis? What are the barriers to the effective involvement of service users and staff:"                                                                                                               (Dr John McGinley, Director of Psychological Therapies, Carstairs State Hospital Lindsay Johnson,      Research Follow)
• "Care interventions for patients with BPD in the acute setting"                                         (Michael Dennison, Staff Nurse, Gartnavel Royal Hospital, Glasgow)
• "Workforce Training"                                                                                                             (Carol Watson, Associate Director of Nursing & Midwifery, NHS Scotland)
• "Borderline UK"                                                                                                                     (Karen Nicoll and Emma Thurston)

22 Sept. 2006

10:00 - 16:00

Venue: Glasgow

Presentations:

• "Mentalizing & Psychotherapeutic Treatments for Borderline Personality Disorder: Help or Hindrance?"                                                                                                              (Professor Anthony Bateman, Consultant psychiatrist in Psychotherapy, Halliwick Unit, Barnet, London)
• "Genesis; How NHS Ayrshire and Arran are Planning Services for people with Personality Disorder?"                                                                                                                                    (Dr Cathy Cahill, Consultant Psychiatrist in Psychotherapy NHS Ayrshire & Arran)
• "Management of Personality Disordered Offenders in the Community - What is the role of mental services?"                                                                                                                      (Dr Rajan Darjee, Consultant Forensic Psyciatrist, State Hospital, Carstairs)

Workshops:

• "Integrated Care Pathways for Borderline Personality Disorder: Mapping out the Patient Journey"                                                                                                                                    (Rosie Cameron, National ICP Co-ordinator, NHS Quality)
• "Setting up a support group: a partnership between service users and professionals"            (Jo Mullen, Service User & Lisa Edwards, Community Psychiatric Nurse)
• "Carrying the Can... social work involvement with people with Personality Disorders" (Ronnie Sherriffs, Vicky Blainey & Maggie Cooper, Social Work)
• "The Highland Way": A recent survey carried out into Personality Disorders including numbers & attitudes"                                                                                                        (Sheelagh Rodgers, Psychologist from Highland & Linda Hayward, Assistant Psychologist)
• "Helping Health Professionals in their understanding of Personality Disorder"          (Theresa Kelly, Practitioner Congnitive Behavioural Psychotherapy and Kate Sloan, Pratitioner Psychotherapy & Ian Gidley, Nurse Specialist Pyschotherapy)