Posts Tagged personality disorder
This film is based on a paper presented by former Cassel patients at the BIGSPD conference in June 2023, and subsequently published in the International Journal of Therapeutic Communities. Using a diary format, it chronicles their experience during a typical week in the life of an Outreach patient at The Cassel, where a strong culture of peer […]
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Supporting past patients to develop their skills and develop work as experts by experience is the main focus of the CHCT’s Service User Involvement Fund (SUIV). So we were delighted to fund past patients to attend the annual BIGSPD conference held this year in Belfast. The former outreach patient group had successfully presented at last […]
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New research has been published in BJPsych Open by the Cassel Hospital Charitable Trust’s (CHCT) collaboration between King’s College London, and the University of Bristol. The project used novel approaches to explore measures of severity of ‘personality disorder’ using routine data from electronic health records (EHRs). Novel approach to health service data Research lead Dr […]
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The CHCT is delighted to announce that it is funding new, ground-breaking research led by King’s College London. The project will look at the occurrence of remission and recovery among patients with personality disorder. These concepts are not easy to quantify but are fundamental to measuring the effectiveness of treatment and to the development of […]
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Staff and patients from The Cassel are working with archivists on how the hospital’s internationally important records may help in the treatment of personality disorders. The project is part of The Cassel’s centenary celebrations and centres on the exploration of documents and artefacts dating from 1919. These are kept at The Planned Environment Therapy Archives […]
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New research funded by The Cassel Hospital Charitable Trust has shown short-term interventions may be helpful to people with a diagnosis of personality disorder and complex trauma. Current guidance from the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) does not support the use of short-term interventions. The Cassel Hospital Research unit applied to the charity for […]
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