BIGSPD Conference Virtual Special Issue

Collection of content on personality disorders in support of BIGSPD Annual Conference 2025

The following content from across a number of Emerald Publishing journals on mental health and forensic psychology has been selected around the themes of the BIGSPD Annual Conference 2025. 

This is in free access for the duration of the event and until 10th of July 2025.

We also welcome submissions for the Special Issue in Autism and Personality Disorders.

Concerns over the prescription of clozapine for people diagnosed with “borderline personality disorder” in private locked psychiatric units
Keir Harding, Dan Warrender, Hollie Berrigan

A qualitative study of the label of personality disorder from the perspectives of people with lived experience and occupational experience
Gary Lamph, Jake Dorothy, Tamar Jeynes, Alison Coak, Raeesa Jassat, Alison Elliott, Mick McKeown, Tim Thornton

Evaluating the impact of staff training on “personality disorder” on attitudes, knowledge and confidence over time
Hege Myklebust, Hannah Gaffney, Sarah Parkinson

Evaluating co-production in an interactive webinar series concerning borderline personality disorder: a discourse and content analysis
Ioanna Xenophontes, Neil Springham 

Comorbid autism spectrum disorder and borderline personality disorder: case conceptualization and treatment implications
Madeleine Allman, Sophie Kerr, Carmelo Ismael Roldan, Geri Maria Harris, Gerald E. Harris

An exploration of mock juror experience during the deliberations of a defendant diagnosed with a personality disorder
Sophie Wootton, Sophia Tkazky, Henriette Bergstrøm 

Dialectical behaviour therapy outcomes for adolescents with autism spectrum conditions compared to those without: findings from a seven-year service evaluation
Matthew David Phillips, Rhian Parham, Katrina Hunt, Jake Camp 

Exploring ethnicity and personality disorder in a UK context: a scoping review of the literature
Gary Lamph, Peggy Mulongo, Paul Boland, Tamar Jeynes, Colin King, Rachel-Rose Burrell, Catherine Harris, Sarah Shorrock

Impact on staff attitudes of brief personality disorder training for acute psychiatric wards
Claire McDonald, Fiona Seaman-Thornton, Che Ling Michelle Mok, Hanne Jakobsen, Simon Riches

For more information on these journals in Emerald’s Health and Social Care Collection please visit: Our subjects: Health & social care | Emerald Publishing (emeraldgrouppublishing.com)