People, Personality & Disorder in mental health care
Learning Beyond Registration
15 credits at level 3 (degree level)
This course seeks to introduce students to a framework that can enhance existing attitude, knowledge and skills and be safely applied to everyday encounters with service users who have pervasive and persistent difficulties around managing their relationship with themselves and their social environment.
The core curriculum includes:
- What is personality and how can it be disordered?
- The personal socio-cultural and ideological context of personality disorder
- Core therapeutic foundations for working with this group of service users
- Arriving at shared understandings with service users and carers
- Building commitment to change
- Strategies for improving psychological functioning
- Strategies for improving social and interpersonal functioning
- Strategies for working with crisis and risk situations
- Case management
- Working on own thoughts and feelings.
and will involve 6 days of classroom based learning and 20 hours of web-based learning. Students are required to submit 4 x 800 word written assignments.
All courses within the LBR portfolio are accredited and these credits can be used towards the BSc (Hons) Professional Practice degree award. For further information on the award, please see the BSc (Hons) Professional Practice entry on the LBR course page or contact lbr@lincoln.ac.uk
Note: All communications will be by email, to place of work email addresses.
Contact Dates
Cohort 2 - 2012
12/06/2012
19/06/2012
26/06/2012
03/07/2012
10/07/2012
17/07/2012
Cohort 1
13/11/2012
20/11/2012
27/11/2012
04/12/2012
11/12/2012
18/12/2012
Cohort 2
04/06/2013
11/06/2013
18/06/2013
25/06/2013
02/07/2013
09/07/2013
Closing date for applications is 1 Month before start date.
This course may be eligible for funding on LBR programmes, supported by
East Midlands Healthcare Deanery. Please check website for details at
www.eastmidlandsdeanery.nhs.uk/lbr
Further details, Email: lbr@lincoln.ac.uk
