Borderline Personality Disorder; does the language used by professionals affect the way that service users are perceived by mental health professionals and does this perception affect the care received by service users?

This dissertation is a discourse analysis of the language used by mental health practitioners when working with service users who have a diagnosis of borderline personality disorder (also known as emotionally unstable personality disorder), and whether the terms used (words such as manipulative and attention seeking) affect the care that they give to service users. I have already carried out a literature review for a previous assignment and have some references available from this. The dissertation needs to be from a social work perspective and as such needs to mention the BASW, the Professional Capabilities Framework and the HCPC coder of conduct. My lit review found that the language created a negative perception of service users which adversely affected care, but that this was less likely to happen with social workers than with other mental health professionals such as mental health nurses. Overall, social workers were much better at working with these individuals. I can email PDFs of the literature that I used for my lit review.
Please feel free to use your own headings and other research – this can include online blogs from service users if you would like to include some personal experiences but should be mostly academic. I can also provide a copy of the learning outcomes required.