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An evaluation of a brief intervention to increase knoweldge of personality disorders and their treatments. The intervention also seeks to explain to service users the limitations of a personality disorder diagnosis, namely that it does not tell people all they need to know about service users, and to encourage self compassion

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Delivering this intervention is a positive experience and a useful way of building rapport with service users prior to commencing treatments for reducing the impact of living with a personality disorder.

Dr Deborah J Morris
St Andrews Healthcare

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This page is a summary of: Increasing knowledge of personality disorders in detained women with an intellectual disability, Journal of Intellectual Disabilities and Offending Behaviour, March 2015, Emerald,
DOI: 10.1108/jidob-04-2015-0005.
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