Education and training

Spectrum’s training team offers 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
• 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.