Education & training

Spectrum’s training team is dedicated to offering a range of programs to empower professionals, people who experience personality disorder and complex trauma and the family and friends who care for them. Our team strives to provide the knowledge, skills and support needed to deliver best-practice treatment and care.

We offer:

• comprehensive education and professional development workshops for professionals to enhance treatment and support practices

• programs to enhance the capacity of the whole of organisation to provide treatment and services for people with personality disorder and/or complex trauma

• programs to provide information and support for families, friends, and carers, and

• psychoeducation and wellbeing sessions for people with lived experience of personality disorder and complex trauma.

Some professional development workshop topics include:

• Foundation training for working with people with
  borderline personality disorder (BPD) in non-clinical
  settings
• BPD Core Competency workshop
• Dialectical Behavioural Therapy for BPD
• Mentalization-Based Treatment for BPD
• Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for BPD
• Working with crises associated with BPD
• Working with co-occurring BPD and complex trauma
• Good Psychiatric Management for Adults with BPD
• Good Psychiatric Management for complexity and co-existing conditions.

The training team work collaboratively with Spectrum’s clinical services, Centre for Personality Disorder and Complex Trauma Research and lived and living experience teams to develop evidence-based, best practice, high-quality training.