Personality Disorders Overview
CPD
50m
Lecture Overview
Mental health nurse, Geoff Ahern, provides a comprehensive review of personality disorders, which can be complex and challenging to identify. This lecture utilises the DSM-V (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders) to explain the different personality disorder diagnoses and how each condition varies.
Educators
Geoffrey Ahern
Geoffrey Ahern is a senior mental health clinician and educator who splits his time between working with people in a mental health crisis in the ED setting and working proactively to educate other health professionals and the community about how to better understand mental health problems, as well as substance use and addiction. Over the years, he has gained extensive experience in emergency and trauma, rural nursing, alcohol and other drug counselling, and psychiatric nursing across both the public and private sectors. He holds a masters of health science (mental health and addiction). Geoff is particularly fascinated by the impact that exercise, nutrition, community, meaning and purpose, and practices like yoga have on a person’s mental health, as well as living a simple life of reflection, contentment and wonderment. See Educator Profile