Working Positively with Personality Disorder in Secure Settings: A Practitioner's Perspective

Working Positively with Personality Disorder in Secure Settings provides a positive, compassionate and evidence-based guide to working with patients with personality disorders.

• Unique in both its coverage and in its positive and evidence-based approach to working with patients with personality disorders
• Written with a practical focus by experienced practitioners in the field
• Offers a broad approach, with contributions from forensic and clinical psychologists, nurses, and therapists
• Covers therapy and therapeutic relationships, and issues of supervision, workforce development, treatment evaluation, team dynamics and managing boundaries
• Includes a strong patient focus and a number of personal accounts from patients who have received therapy themselves