RETHINKING FIRST EPISODE PSYCHOSIS AND PERSONALITY DISORDER

Parkville Youth Mental Health Wellbeing Service (PYMHWS) provides clinical training and service development support to clinicians and services working in youth mental health across Victoria. The PYMHWS Clinical training program provides a calendar of training targeting foundation skills in early intervention. Advanced training is also available for clinicians looking to build further skills focusing on specific client groups or techniques.

PYMHWS Clinical Training

This workshop explores co-occuring FEP and personality disorder, including the different principles of early intervention.

Orygen Colonial  Foundation Innovation Centre

Historic conceptualisations and research in clinical populations observe the co-occurrence of psychotic symptoms and personality disorder features. There continues to be controversy and debate regarding this co-occurrence; attitudes and the language used by health professionals can be unhelpfully binary and stigmatising. Services and clinicians also find themselves navigating the dilemmas and principles of treatment for young people with both psychotic symptoms and personality disorder features.
At the completion of this workshop, you will: 
•	be able to describe the current evidence on the co-occurrence of borderline personality disorder (BPD) and psychosis; 
•	have an understanding of the early intervention principles and models of care for BPD; and 
•	have gained knowledge on the application of principles in formulating, screening and assessment for personality disorders and psychotic symptoms, pharmacological management and managing risk to self

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