Bookings for Families and Carers Training and Support Programme (FACTS)
About this course:
The Families and Carers Training and Support Programme (FACTS) is a short course designed to support the friends and families of people with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD)/ Emerging Emotionally Unstable Personality Disorder (EUPD). FACTS is a unique, carer-led training programme, developed with the support of the Anna Freud Centre, for the friends and families of people with BPD/EUPD.
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Please email bpdbooking@yahoo.co.uk for an application form.
For more information about FACTS please see here on our website.
This five-week course will cover:
- What BPD is, and how to manage this difficult condition
- How you can rebuild relationships and reduce conflict
- How best to support your relative or friend with BPD
- How to cope with your feelings of anger, grief, conflict and stress.
FACTS works by bringing small groups of families and friends together for 5 sessions (five evening sessions, each lasting two hours, spaced out over several weeks). During the sessions participants are introduced to various skills and invited to participate in some group activities, as well as carrying out small homework tasks. FACTS is an information and training course, and is not a clinical intervention. Participants are introduced to new skills to help them cope with their family situation.
If you are not already on the mailing lists for FACTS and the Harrow Rethink Support Group for Carers of People with BPD/EUPD and you would like to sign up to our mailing lists please email bpdbooking@yahoo.co.uk
- Who is the training suitable for?
If you have received the link to this booking page you should have already been invited to apply to the course. Please do not forward or share the link to this booking page.
Criteria for participation in the course include being a family member or friend of a person with BPD/EUPD, and being able to attend the 5 evening sessions. The individual with BPD/EUPD does not need to be receiving specialist support from BPD services for their carers to be able to participate.- Application process
This booking page has only been shared with candidates who have been invited to apply to the course. Please do not forward or share the link to this booking page.
Please email bpdbooking@yahoo.co.uk for an application form.
- Aims of the training?
We know it can sometimes be difficult to live with, or care for, someone who has Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD/EUPD). Families and friends can struggle to cope with their own feelings, leaving them traumatised, disempowered and unsure how best to help their loved one. Support and advice is rarely available and when it is, is often confusing and unhelpful. The purpose of FACTS is to improve family wellbeing and offer advice and support to families.
- Who is the training delivered by?
The training is led by trained carers of people with BPD. Participants have the chance to be trained to run FACTS as carer-leaders. This supports the long-term aim for FACTS to become available to carers throughout the UK.
The volunteer FACTS leaders have received some training but have no specific clinical or professional qualifications, and do not have any clinical responsibility towards participants or their families and friends, nor for how carers use the skills, or for any subsequent events. Should the carer trainers have any serious concerns about the well-being of participants or their families, they will discuss these directly with the participants, and encourage them to access appropriate help, for example from their GP.
- Five weeks (five evening sessions, each lasting two hours, over five weeks)
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