Course description

One of the greatest challenges in mental health practice is working with treatment resistant cases. Treatment resistant presentations may include any psychiatric disorder that does not respond to standard treatment. Treatment resistance is more than complexity created by comorbid diagnostic issues and typically patient¿s present with a significant history of failure to respond to intervention or a modest time limited response with relapse. Importantly personality disorder is often part of the clinical presentation in treatment resistant cases. Personality disorder has an established role in treatment resistance and requires specialised treatment approaches. Typically, psychotherapeutic approaches to working with treatment resistance are based on those developed for working with personality disorder. Specialised psychotherapeutic approaches are required by this patient group to assist them to improve their level of functioning. The course will focus on the psychological treatment of complex treatment resistant cases and personality disorder as part of the diagnostic presentation. Evidence based and traditional psychotherapy principles will be taught and developed in practice to develop the skills base to work effectively with these cases.

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