Helping keep people with Borderline Personality Disorder live out of hospital.
What is it about?
In 2016 we established a community personality disorder case management team at Spring House in Liverpool, UK. In 2017 the service extended to include a combined day and crisis service. This paper is evaluation of our combined services, with 3 years of data. The aim in establishing our services was to help people live locally in the community, rather than be sent out of area to locked units or have long local psychiatric inpatient admissions.
Why is it important?
Many of the people under the care of our teams had found themselves trapped within inpatient settings, this situation being potentiated by high-risk behaviours by service users and a risk avoidance approach by professionals. Our service users are generally those too unstable to engage initially in a psychological intervention, needing instead a period of support to gain stabilisation.