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Sanctuary members regularly contribute to this blog with information of interest to Carers of people with BPD.
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No Meeting in April 2020
Given the recommendations of the Government re corona virus, sanctuary meetings are cancelled for the time being
March 2020 Sanctuary Meeting – Kirsty Acres
Kirsty Acres spoke to our March Sanctuary meeting on Tuesday, March 10
February 2020 Sanctuary Meeting – Clark Sim on Schema Therapy
Psychologist Clark Sim spoke at our February Meeting about Schema Therapy
Map showing Glenside Admin and Learning Services Building
Sanctuary meetings are often held in the Glenside Admin and Learning Services Building in the southwest corner of Glenside Health Services campus (bottom right of the map, marked with a red cross)
January 2020 Sanctuary Meeting – Christmas and Special Occasions – Dr Mario Naso
Dr Maria Naso from BPD Co spoke at the January Sanctuary meeting about Christmas and other Special Occasions
November 2019 Sanctuary Meeting – Laura Cooke-O’Connor from BPDCo
Laura Cooke-O’Connor from BPDCo spoke at the November Sanctuary meeting
SA activities for BPD Awareness Week 2019
In October, instead of our regular meeting, lets catch up at these BPD Awareness Week activities, between 1st and 9th October ………
September 2019 Sanctuary Meeting – On Diagnosis
We took this opportunity to focus on diagnosis, sharing a video from the NEA.BPD.
August 2019 Sanctuary Meeting – Dr Lisa Chantler, Bridge Consulting
Dr Lisa Chantler (a psychologist from Bridge Consulting) ran a Q&A session at our August meeting .
July 2019 Sanctuary Meeting – DVD and Discussion
At the July Sanctuary meeting, we watched a DVD from the series “If Only We Had Known”, which discusses how having someone in the family diagnosed with BPD affects all the members in the family
May 2019 Sanctuary Meeting – Sally Skewes, Advanced Schema Therapist, Secure Nest
Sally Skewes, a Clinical Psychologist explained how she uses Schema Therapy to help consumers and how she works with families
April 2019 Sanctuary Meeting – Malcolm Robinson, Bower Place
Malcolm Robinson, a Family Therapist at Bower Place, spoke to Sanctuary about having a parent with BPD and how that might affect a child. Also what parents and grandparents can do to help.
March 2019 Sanctuary Meeting – Dr Robin L. Kissell
Dr. Robin L. Kissell MD is the Director of the Borderline Personality Disorder Initiative, Semel Institute, UCLA.
At our March meeting, we listened to a recording of her excellent talk:
‘Understanding and Helping Loved Ones with Borderline Personality Disorder’
February 2019 Sanctuary Meeting – Kristy Acres
Kristy Acres who spoke about carer inclusion in hospital emergency departments.
January 2019 Sanctuary Meeting – Dan Schmidt, Headspace
Headspace run the Youth Early Psychosis Program (YEPP), an early intervention service where clinicians can visit someone at home or in the ED.
November 2018 Sanctuary Meeting – Just Us
Video Educational Session
Emerging BPD and Youth Working Group
Floorplan of the new BPD Centre on Greenhill Rd
October 2018 Sanctuary Meeting – Kirsty Burns
Kirsty Burns works in the Short stay Unit (Mental Health) at Flinders Medical Centre . She explained what happens in the Emergency Department when we take our family member there, who gets to see them to assess them and how do they get to see a psychiatrist, if at all. To help us understand how the system works and whether our expectations are unrealistic to fit in with hospital protocol and reduce some of the frustrations we experience.
September 2018 Sanctuary Meeting – What makes caring for BPD loved ones unique?
What makes caring for a loved one diagnosed with BPD a unique experience? BPD is different from other mental illnesses such as Bipolar disorder, Schizophrenia or depression etc. in that these illnesses are treatable with medication (as long as the person takes their meds of course!. BPD is different in that meds don’t help the BPD issues like abandonment, rage and self-harm among of course others.
August 2018 Sanctuary Meeting – Dr Martha Kent, Plans for New BPD Centre
Dr Martha Kent discussed how the new BPD Centre of Excellence (CoE) might work and all the different issues that need to be considered.
July 2018 Sanctuary Meeting – Dr Chris Wurm, GP and Addiction Specialist
Dr Chris Wurm is a counsellor and a GP Psychotherapist in Private Practice.
Two of his many areas of interest are working with people who have Drug and Alcohol issues and also adolescents diagnosed with Mental Illness
June 2018 Sanctuary Meeting – Just Us
This was a “just us” meeting, to be with people who “get it”, and learn which behaviours are not simply bad behaviour but are an effect of Borderline Personality Disorder.
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