The purpose of this survey is to develop a questionnaire looking at mental health staff’s thoughts, feelings and actions when working with people who meet the diagnostic criteria for borderline (emotionally unstable) personality disorder. It is hoped this questionnaire will be useful the recruitment and training of staff who work with this client group. If you have some experience of working with people with borderline personality disorder (BPD) you are invited to participate in this study. We are aware some people prefer not to use diagnostic labels such as BPD. We would still appreciate your input if you do not use this diagnostic category but have experience of working with people who would meet the criteria for this diagnosis. We are using this diagnostic category within the study to identify a particular group of service users. The procedure involves filling in a survey which will take approximately 15 minutes of your time. The survey consists of the new questionnaire and existing measures of attitudes, empathy and social distance. Your responses will be confidential and we will not collect any identifying information such as your name or email address. To protect your confidentiality your responses will be stored in a password protected electronic format in accordance with the Data Protection Act (1998). As you will be asked about your feelings towards working with people with BPD it is possible you might find the survey has an emotional impact. Should this happen you have the options of discussing this with the researcher, or your manager in clinical supervision. This study is being conducted by Emma McQuillan, a trainee clinical psychologist at the University of Surrey as part of her clinical psychology doctorate (PsychD) and is supervised by Dr Fiona Warren (Lecturer). Your participation in this study is entirely voluntary and you may choose not to participate, without justifying this decision. If you choose to participate in the study you will be free to withdraw at any time, again without justifying your decision and without prejudice. This research has been approved by The Faculty of Arts and Human Sciences Ethics Committee at the University of Surrey. If you have any further questions about this study prior to making a decision about please contact: Emma McQuillan (Researcher) Psychology Department University of Surrey Guilford GU27XH (for research purposes only) email:e.mcquillan@surrey.ac.uk Dr Fiona Warren (Supervisor) Lecturer Department of Psychology University of Surrey
The purpose of this survey is to develop a questionnaire looking at mental health staff’s thoughts, feelings and actions when working with people who meet the diagnostic criteria for borderline (emotionally unstable) personality disorder. It is hoped this questionnaire will be useful the recruitment and training of staff who work with this client group. If you have some experience of working with people with borderline personality disorder (BPD) you are invited to participate in this study. We are aware some people prefer not to use diagnostic labels such as BPD. We would still appreciate your input if you do not use this diagnostic category but have experience of working with people who would meet the criteria for this diagnosis. We are using this diagnostic category within the study to identify a particular group of service users. The procedure involves filling in a survey which will take approximately 15 minutes of your time. The survey consists of the new questionnaire and existing measures of attitudes, empathy and social distance. Your responses will be confidential and we will not collect any identifying information such as your name or email address. To protect your confidentiality your responses will be stored in a password protected electronic format in accordance with the Data Protection Act (1998). As you will be asked about your feelings towards working with people with BPD it is possible you might find the survey has an emotional impact. Should this happen you have the options of discussing this with the researcher, or your manager in clinical supervision. This study is being conducted by Emma McQuillan, a trainee clinical psychologist at the University of Surrey as part of her clinical psychology doctorate (PsychD) and is supervised by Dr Fiona Warren (Lecturer). Your participation in this study is entirely voluntary and you may choose not to participate, without justifying this decision. If you choose to participate in the study you will be free to withdraw at any time, again without justifying your decision and without prejudice. This research has been approved by The Faculty of Arts and Human Sciences Ethics Committee at the University of Surrey. If you have any further questions about this study prior to making a decision about please contact: Emma McQuillan (Researcher) Psychology Department University of Surrey Guilford GU27XH (for research purposes only) email:e.mcquillan@surrey.ac.uk Dr Fiona Warren (Supervisor) Lecturer Department of Psychology University of Surrey
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