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Crisis and Triage Clinicians' Attitudes Toward Working With People With Personality Disorder
Author(s) -
Purves Deborah,
Sands Natisha
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
perspectives in psychiatric care
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.538
H-Index - 35
eISSN - 1744-6163
pISSN - 0031-5990
DOI - 10.1111/j.1744-6163.2009.00223.x
Subject(s) - triage , personality , exploratory research , psychiatry , psychology , clinical psychology , medicine , social psychology , sociology , anthropology
PURPOSE. This study aimed to investigate the attitudes of Australian psychiatric triage and crisis clinicians toward those with a diagnosis of personality disorder. DESIGN AND METHODS. The design of the study was exploratory descriptive research. The study employed a survey method using Bowers and Allan's (2006) Attitude to Personality Disorder Questionnaire, which was designed to identify global attitudes toward those with a diagnosis of personality disorder. FINDINGS. The findings of this study indicate that psychiatric crisis and triage clinicians hold negative attitudes toward those with a diagnosis of personality disorder. PRACTICE IMPLICATIONS. Education and clinical supervision is required to address negative clinician attitudes.