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Programme summary for PGCert Psychosocial Perspectives on working with people with personality disorders

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The programme aims to equip people with more knowledge and to increase individuals’ capacity to work with people who present with multiple and challenging difficulties associated with diagnoses of personality disorder.

PGCert Psychosocial Perspectives on Working with People with Personality Disorders at UEL

This programme is unique in the UK in providing a practice-based post-graduate qualification in working with people with Personality Disorders. Some of these unique features are:-

  • Active collaboration with an Independent group of service users who are ‘experts-by-experience
  • Bringing together and integrating practitioners working in general adult, forensic mental health, social care and community justice practitioners
  • The programme is partly offered within a Medium Secure Unit thus placing very specific restrictions on the freedom of movement of students as a focus for reflection
  • High quality practice/clinical supervision in small groups with senior clinician
  • Progression to MA in Psychosocial Studies by Distance learning at UEL  

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