Personality disorder : new initiatives in staff training / Eddie Kane -- What is personality disorder? / Ronald Blackburn -- The causes of personality disorder / Nic Alwin -- Psychological theories regarding the development of personality disorder / Jim Moorey ... [et al.] -- Psychological therapies for personality disorder / Jim Moorey ... [et al.] -- Therapeutic communities and day services for people with personality disorders / Kate Hellin -- Pharmacotherapy and personality disorders / Giles Newton-Howes -- People's experiences of having a diagnosis of personality disorder / Rex Haigh -- An introduction to community mental health teams (CMHTs) : how do they relate to patients with personality disorder? / Tom Burns -- When can contact with the community mental health team (CMHT) be considered 'treatment'? / Remy McCubbin -- The challenges community mental health teams face in their work with patients with personality disorders / Mark J. Sampson -- The treatment frame and the treatment alliance / Jim Moorey -- The management of potentially lethal self-harming behaviour / Mark J. Sampson and Gary L. Sidley -- Community mental health care teams and the assessment of personality functioning / Lara Bennett -- Involving family, friends, and carers / Remy A. McCubbin -- Personality disorder in the broader healthcare system / Dawn Bennett and Ian B. Kerr -- Clinical supervision / Mary Shinner and Dawn Bennett.