title: A personal challenge.
abstract: Statutory services increasingly concentrating on serious mental illness may be seen as neglectful of people with personality disorders. Psychological therapies are available to help such patients and their principles can be used by mental health nurses. Some of these strategies, derived from the theory and practice of cognitive behavioural therapy, are described here.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, Royal South Hants Hospital, Southampton.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Childs-Clarke
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Oxley
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000328:Adult; D015928:Cognitive Behavioral Therapy; D006801:Humans; D010554:Personality Disorders / Q000523:psychology* / Q000628:therapy*; D011568:Psychiatric Nursing