Structured Clinical Management (SCM) for Personality Disorder

Stuart Mitchell is an HCPC registered Consultant Clinical Psychologist and Trust Lead for Personality Disorder in the Cumbria, Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust. He is a trained Clinical Psychologist, Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist, EMDR, MBT and DBT therapist. He is an MBT skills trainer and accredited supervisor. He has, with his colleagues, developed and leads the Personality Difficulties and Complex Trauma Pathway and Strategic Clinical Networkin his Trust, and supports a Trust-wide Personality Disorder Service. This team won Team of the Year in his Trust in 2018 and a National HSJ Award in 2018 for patient safety. He provides training, supervision and consultation to his Trust and around the UK on complex trauma, personality disorder andadapted care pathways. He is involved in national developments of practice guidelines for dissociation and complex trauma.Mark Sampson is Lead Psychologist and Lead Clinician in Personality Disorder and Psychology Lead for NWBH Foundation Trust. For the past 16 years he has specialized in working with people that meet the diagnosis of a personality disorder. He has been involved in Local and National policy development for personality disorder. National work includes working for NICE as a guideline development group member on the borderline personality disorder guideline 2006 to 2009. He has been chair/lead forthe development and implementation of Northwest Borough's Personality Disorder Pathway and Greater Manchester Clinical Lead for their BPD strategy. The NWBH personality disorder pathway has had Local and National recognition and the service won a Positive Practice Award in 2019. He co-edited'Personality Disorder and Community Mental Health Teams' (2006). He was a member of the NHS England Clinical Reference Group for Tier 4 personality disorder - representing Cheshire and Merseyside.Anthony Bateman developed mentalization based treatment with Peter Fonagy for borderline personality disorder and studied its effectiveness in research trials. An expert member of National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE) development group for treatment guidelines for Borderline Personality Disorder in UK and was Chair of the National Guideline Development Group for Eating Disorders. His NHS clinical services are recognised by the Department of Health as a national demonstration sitefor the treatment of personality disorder. He was President of the European Society for the Study of Personality Disorders (ESSPD) from 2012-2015. He received a senior scientist award from British and Irish group for the Study of Personality Disorder in 2012 and in 2015 the annual award forAchievement in the Field of Severe Personality Disorders from the BPDRC USA. He has authored 14 books and has over 150 peer reviewed research articles on personality disorder and the use of psychotherapy.