Many services are now adopting this term, derived from psychology and neuroscience, in preference to the awkward medico-diagnostic term “personality disorder”.
Keyword Groups: Clients and Needs
personality disorder
See also ‘complex trauma’
local catchment area
A catchment area is the geographical area covered by (and so defined by) a local government or similar administrative body, that in effect defines the range of services. If your service is local but NOT limited by local authority funding you probably want to use “other” – and give more detail in a personal profile?
locality
A locality, at least as will use the term here, means a smaller sub-district within a town or city, usually with some special reasons to be a focus of services, such as area poverty or a concentration of other needs.
particular ethnic group
You may specify the particular ethnic group in your personal profile and/ or via a link to the agency website
older people
We don’t specify a lower age limit to older age. Use this if it seems relevant to your service or interests
all adults
Similar to all or any group, but excluding young people
other client
Let us know of any other significant client group definitions, and we will add them in future if there is sufficient demand. See ‘folksonomy’
complex needs
In recent needs, ‘complex needs’ has started to be identified as a client group in its own right (See the UK Big Lottery’s Fulfilling Lives programme for one useful definition.) For a discussion of this change in vocabulary, as a social policy phenomenon, see: Johnson (2014a, 2014b) in the Library.
multiple exclusion
Like ‘complex needs (see below), multiple exclusion is lately beginning to be used as a client group definition, as a counterpart to ‘complex needs’. To cater for this (and encourage it), we include it in this list.