Mark Sampson & Remy McCubbin 
Personality Disorder and Community Mental Health Teams [PDF ebook] 
A Practitioner’s Guide

Practitioners in Community Mental Health Teams (CMHTs) frequently
find that traditional forms of support are ineffective when offered
to patients with personality disorder.

This book considers the various difficulties encountered, with
reference to current thinking about the origins, maintenance and
treatment of personality disorder. Written by practitioners for
practitioners, it provides a framework for developing effective
care plans with minimal use of technical terms and jargon. Rather
than promote an approach based on a single theoretical model,
consideration is given to ways in which different approaches can be
effectively combined within a multi-disciplinary team. The book is
divided into two sections. The first outlines recent government
initiatives relating to personality disorder and introduces key
theories underlying psychological and biological treatments. The
second focuses specifically on the role of the CMHT in relation to
patients with these difficulties, including:

* the assessment of personality functioning

* developing coherent plans for treatment and support

* optimising the therapeutic relationship

* managing self-harming behaviour

* particular challenges faced by CMHTs, and how to overcome
them

* the views of service users

* involving family, friends and carers.

Personality Disorder and Community Mental Health Teams
deals with the reality of services today. It is essential reading
for all mental health practitioners in CMHTs working with people
with personality disorder.

Daftar Isi

About the Editors.

List of Contributors.

Preface.

SECTION ONE: THEORETICAL BACKGROUND.

1. Personality Disorder: New Initiatives in Staff Training
(Eddie Kane).

2. What is Personality Disorder? (Ronald Blackburn).

3. The Causes of Personality Disorder (Nic Alwin).

4. Psychological Theories Regarding the Development of
Personality Disorder (Jim Moorey, Kate Davidson, Mark Evans and
Janet Feigenbaum).

5. Psychological Therapies for Personality Disorder (Jim Moorey,
Kate Davidson, Mark Evans and Janet Feigenbaum).

6. Therapeutic Communities and Day Services for People with
Personality Disorders (Kate Hellin).

7. Pharmacotherapy and Personality Disorders (Giles
Newton-Howes).

SECTION TWO: TREATMENT AND MANAGEMENT IN COMMUNITY MENTAL
HEALTH TEAMS.

8. People’s Experiences of Having a Diagnosis of
Personality Disorder (Rex Haigh).

9. An Introduction to Community Mental Health Teams (CMHTs): How
Do They Relate to Patients with Personality Disorders? (Tom
Burns).

10. When Can Contact with the Community Mental Health Team
(CMHT) be Considered ‘Treatment’? (Remy Mc Cubbin).

11. The Challenges Community Mental Health Teams Face in Their
Work with Patients with Personality Disorders (Mark J.
Sampson).

12. The Treatment Frame and the Treatment Alliance (Jim
Moorey).

13. The Management of Potentially Lethal Self-Harming Behaviour
(Mark J. Sampson and Gary L. Sidley).

14. Community Mental Health Teams and the Assessment of
Personality Functioning (Lara Bennett).

15. Involving Family, Friends and Carers (Remy Mc Cubbin).

16. Personality Disorder in Other Healthcare Settings (Dawn
Bennett and Ian B. Kerr).

17. Clinical Supervision (Mary Shinner and Dawn Bennett).

Index.

Tentang Penulis

Mark Sampson works as a clinical psychologist in two
Community Mental Health Teams (CMHTs) in South Manchester. He has
been a part of these teams for the past five years and during this
time developed experience and expertise in working with patients
with personality disorder. He originally trained as a general and
psychiatric nurse before studying psychology, obtaining a doctorate
in clinical psychology from the University of Manchester in 1999.
He uses integrative approaches to working with patients with
personality disorders, but is strongly influenced by cognitive and
cognitive analytic therapies.

Remy Mc Cubbin first studied Biology at Southhampton
University, graduating in 1987. He went on to study for a MA in
Psychology at Nottingham University, graduating in 1993, before
working on an evaluation of three CMHTs in the Midlands. In 1998 he
completed a doctorate in clinical psychology, since which time he
has worked across several community teams in South Manchester. This
has inspired an interest in personality disorder, and has led to a
recognition of the importance of such difficulties in the response
to treatment of many people seen by these services. He has an
interest in several forms of therapy, and the potential advantages
of integrating various approaches within multi-disciplinary
interventions. Away from personality disorder, he has an interest
in the role of affective avoidance in the maintenance of various
Axis I and Axis II disorders.

Peter Tyrer is the Head of the Department of
Psychological Medicine at Imperial College, London, Honorary
Consultant in Rehabilitation Psychiatry, Central North West London
Mental Health NHS Trust, and Honorary Consultant in Assertive
Outreach (IMPACT team) in West London Mental Health Trust. He
obtained his medical qualifications at the University of Cambridge
at St Thomas’s Hospital London in 1965 and trained in
psychiatry at the Maudsley Hospital and Institute of Psychiatry,
London. He has carried out research into personality disorder since
he was a medical student and has published two books and over 100
original articles on the subject. He is the founder president of
the British and Irish Group for the Study of Personality Disorders
and the Co-Chair of the Section on Personality Disorders of the
World Psychiatric Association. He is a Fellow of the Academy of
Medical Sciences, of the Faculty of Public Health, of the Royal
College of Physicians, and of the Royal College of Psychiatrists.
He is the Editor of the British Journal of Psychiatry and on the
editorial board of seven other journals. Despite his academic
interests he still regards himself primarily as a
‘coal-face’ psychiatrist, who has learnt most from his
patients–and among the most stimulating and challenging of
these have been those with personality disorder.