Spectrum

News Brief treatment MBT at the forefront of research and innovation Over the past year, Spectrum’s Mentalization-Based Treatment (MBT) team has developed and implemented a new 6-month MBT intervention, which is based on their existing 18-month program. News DBT Essentials – success in a skills-only intervention to support emotional regulation The Ironbark Program is a flexible, broad-based intervention designed to improve outcomes for clients with BPD, BPD traits, or emotion dysregulation in mental health residential services. It was developed collaboratively by Spectrum, Austin Health, and Mind Australia. News The champions of Spectrum’s training program Over the past year, Spectrum has experienced a surge in the number of initiatives delivered, with 134 training activities reaching 5,769 participants including health professionals, carers, families and partners and those newly diagnosed with BPD. News Building capacity and empowering clinicians in regional Victoria Improving access to quality and evidence-based treatment for people with personality disorder and complex trauma is one of Spectrum’s most fundamental goals. When approached by Mildura Base Hospital with a request to run a training series to try and achieve this, our response was: “When do we start?”