Desborough, Lucy;
(2024)
Evaluating a Pilot Workshop for Employers on Personality Disorders in the Workplace.
Doctoral thesis (D.Clin.Psy), UCL (University College London).
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Abstract
Aims: While employment can provide many benefits to mental health, a stressful work environment and poor-quality jobs can be detrimental to mental health, particularly in those with more severe mental health problems, such as in personality disorder (PD). Research suggests that those who manage or supervise employees with difficulties consistent with a PD diagnosis are unsure how best to support them. This study aims to evaluate whether a one-session workshop on difficulties consistent with PD in the workplace for managerial staff may increase the knowledge, skills and attitudes towards PD and may reduce stigma towards mental health. / Methods: A training workshop was developed with content including psychoeducation and adapted Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) skills for employment. A workshop was delivered to groups of managerial staff, mental health professionals and employment advisors (N=68). A repeated measures ANOVA and paired t-tests were used to evaluate whether knowledge, skills and attitudes towards PD and stigma towards mental health changed from baseline to post-workshop and at a one-month follow-up. Feedback from the workshops were used to develop the workshop further. / Results: The results indicate that the workshop was effective at improving knowledge, skills and attitudes towards PD and these changes remained at the one-month follow-up. The workshop did not change stigmatising attitudes towards mental health. There was a significant interaction between prior training in mental health or PD on some of the outcomes. Qualitative feedback indicated that the workshop was positively received. / Conclusions: The current study found that a one-session training workshop on difficulties consistent with a PD diagnosis in the workplace is effective at improving knowledge, skills and attitudes towards PD, but not stigma towards mental health. Limitations include issues with validity related to recruitment and the measures used. Further research is needed with a larger sample size to understand how the workshop may influence mental health stigma, and whether any changes in understanding of PD translate to behavioural change. Inclusion of people with lived experience in the workshop will help to further evaluate its effectiveness.
| Type: | Thesis (Doctoral) |
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| Qualification: | D.Clin.Psy |
| Title: | Evaluating a Pilot Workshop for Employers on Personality Disorders in the Workplace |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Copyright © The Author 2024. Original content in this thesis is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) Licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/). Any third-party copyright material present remains the property of its respective owner(s) and is licensed under its existing terms. Access may initially be restricted at the author’s request. |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Div of Psychology and Lang Sciences |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10197509 |
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