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What are we doing in
Lothian….?
Professor Alex McMahon, Deputy
Director of Strategic Planning and
Modernisation
• Improving service provision for people
who may attract a diagnosis of
personality disorder
Bringing People Together
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Three Stakeholder Events
Taking Away the Mystery, Nov 2006
Relating and Relationships, Nov 2007
Making a difference, March 2009
Taking Away the Mystery
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There are good reasons..
Life Trap
“I know but I don’t feel”
Different realities
Overwhelming emotion
Relating and Relationships
• Early attachment relationships
• Ongoing relationship difficulties
• Who does the relating
Making a difference
• act as if what you do makes a
difference. It does
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Humility
Curious mind
Patience
Insight / talking
Experiential
Relational
Has led to…a shared values
base
• Developing a shared values base for mental
health in Lothian – 10 Essential Shared
Capabilities and Realising Recovery
• 6 modules and WRAP; Advance
Statements; Person Centered Planning;
Peer Support
• Pool of trainers c16 – over ½ with lived
experience of mental health difficulties
• A collective response to work across
Lothian in line with strategic priorities
Has led to…Creating a resource pack
by service users for use by workers
• Funded project partnership with CAPS
• Presentation at ‘Making A Difference’
• Positive experiences sourced from
websites, bulletin boards
• Responses grouped around a number of
themes
• Services and support
• Knowledge and information
• Attitude and approach
• Validation
• Friends, Family and Peer Support
• Thinking Outside the box
Has led to…ICP for borderline
personality disorder
• Decision we would include borderline
• Good service user and carer
involvement
• Final stages incorporating
recommendations from the Matrix
Has led to.. Making a difference with
staff
• Shift into a focus on the parts that we as
staff play in 'caring' relationships.
• A reflection on what our agendas are,
what our desires are, and what our needs
are.
• Thought about how our actions and
interventions might be understood and
experienced by others.
Model developed with Psychotherapy
Department and Homeless Service
• Regular meetings to think about where we
are in relation to people who are being
considered for exclusion.
• Analysis of the circumstances leading up to
event.
• Attempts where possible to maintain a
relationship, and one that has the potential
for health.
• Contracts of engagement for clients (for
staff actually).
Exploring….
• Advice Line for frontline practitioners
• Moray Model – Self-help, support
group
• Supervision and training for support
workers in 3rd sector
• Greater collaboration between
specialist services and 3rd sector
This time next year…
Hope to have made a difference