Spectrum
Specialising in Personality Disorder and Complex Trauma
Spectrum provides leadership in treatment, consultation, support, training and research for personality disorder and complex trauma.
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Brief treatment MBT at the forefront of research and innovation
Over the past year, Spectrum’s Mentalization-Based Treatment (MBT) team has developed and
implemented a new 6-month MBT intervention, which is based on their existing 18-month
program.
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DBT Essentials – success in a skills-only intervention to support emotional regulation
The Ironbark Program is a flexible, broad-based intervention designed to improve outcomes for clients with BPD, BPD traits, or emotion dysregulation in mental health residential services. It was developed collaboratively by Spectrum, Austin Health, and Mind Australia.
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The champions of Spectrum’s training program
Spectrum has delivered 134 training activities, reaching 4,698 participants including health professionals, carers, families and partners and those newly diagnosed with BPD.
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Building capacity and empowering clinicians in regional Victoria
Improving access to quality and evidence-based treatment for people with personality disorder and complex trauma is one of Spectrum’s most fundamental goals. When approached by Mildura Base Hospital with a request to run a training series to try and achieve this, our response was: “When do we start?”
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here for myself
Information for people exploring what a diagnosis of a personality disorder means, some skills that may be helpful when distressed and treatment options
family, friend, carer
Information and resources for families, friends, supporters, kin who are supporting a person living with BPD or emotional dysregulation
looking for research & evidence
Information about Spectrum's research and innovation programs and current opportunities to participate in research
a professional
Information about the way we work, referral to Spectrum for an assessment and treatment
looking for treatment
Information about the treatment programss that Spectrum offers