Borderline Personality Disorder

Meeting the Challenges to Successful Treatment

Perry D Hoffman, Penny Steiner-Grossman

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2012
• eBook ISBN: 9781136867583
• Topic: Psychology
• Subtopic: Mental Health in Psychology
• Index: Psychology

Explore and understand new approaches in Borderline therapy

Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) lags far behind other disorders such as schizophrenia in terms of research and treatment interventions. Debates about diagnosis, etiology, neurobiology, genetics, medication, and treatment still persist. Borderline Personality Disorder brings together over two dozen of the field's leading experts in one enlightening text. The book also offers mental health providers a view of BPD from the perspectives of sufferers as well as family members to foster an understanding of the experiences of relatives who are often devastated by their loved ones' struggles with this common disorder.

Although there has been an increasing interest in BPD in terms of research funding, treatment advancement, and acknowledgment of family perspective over the last decade, the fact remains that the disorder is still highly stigmatized. Borderline Personality Disorder provides social workers and other mental health clinicians with practical access to the knowledge necessary for effective treatment in a single volume of the most current research, information, and management considerations. This important collection explores the latest methods and approaches to treating BPD patients and supporting their families. This useful text also features handy worksheets and numerous tables that present pertinent information clearly.

Chapters in Borderline Personality Disorder include:

• an overview of Borderline Personality Disorder
• confronting myths and stereotypes about BPD
• biological underpinnings of BPD
• BPD and the need for community—a social worker's perspective on
• an evidence-based approach to managing suicidal behavior in BPD patients
• Dialectical Behavior Therapy
• supportive psychotherapy for borderline patients
• Systems Training for Emotional Predictability and Problem Solving (STEPPS)
• Mentalization-based Treatment
• fostering validating responses in families
• Family Connections: an education and skills training program for family member wellbeing
• and much more!

Full of practical, useable ideas for the betterment of those affected by BPD, Borderline Personality Disorder is a valuable resource for social workers, psychologists, psychiatrists, and counselors, as well as students, researchers, and academics in the mental health field, family members, loved ones, and anyone directly affected by BPD.

Index

A Primer on Transference-Focused Psychotherapy for the Borderline Patient, xxiii

A Systems Approach to Treatment: Borderline Personality Disorder Skill Training Manual, 172

Accurate expression, in validating responses of family of BPD patients, 219-221, 220f

ACT. See Assertive Community Treatment (ACT)

Adler, G., 9

Adolescent(s), with BPD, 85-98

diagnostic issues, 87-88

introduction to, 86

treatment of

challenges in, 88-92

interaction with families, 88-90

interaction with peers, 90-91

school, 91-92

systems, 91-92

concerns and proposed solutions in, 93

family involvement in, 93-94

reasons for hope in, 97

therapists’ reactions, 94-97

Adolescent Depression Suicide Program, xxi

Adult Attachment Interview, 169

Adult Services, NYC Regional Office, NYC Office of Mental Health, xxii

Advanced Career Development Award, from VA, xx

Affective instability, in BPD, 38-42

Aggression, impulsive, in BPD, 35-38, 36f. See also Impulsive aggression, in BPD

Allen, J.G., 188

American Psychiatric Association, 2, 27

Guidelines for the Treatment of Borderline Personality Disorder, 102

American Psychological Association (APA), xxi

Practice Guidelines for BPD, 71-72

Society of Clinical Psychology Section on Clinical Emergencies and Crises of, xx, xxi

American Psychotherapy Association, xviii

Anna Freud Center, xviii-xix

Anticonvulsant mood stabilizers, for BPD, 136-137

Antidepressant(s), for BPD, 136

Antipsychotic(s), for BPD, 134-135, 144

Appelbaum, A.H., xvii, 145

Appleby, L., 19

Aripiprazole, for BPD, 135

Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) program, 172

Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) team, xxii

Association for Research in Personality Disorders, xxi

Bad Boys, Bad Men–Confronting Antisocial Personality Disorder, xviii

Bartels, N., 172, 173, 176

Bateman, A.W., xvii, 8, 75, 187

Baylor College of Medicine, xvii

Child and Family Program at Menninger Department of Psychiatry at, xix

BDI. See Beck Depression Inventory (BDI)

Beck Depression Inventory (BDI), 174, 175

Behavior(s), suicidal, in BPD patients, management of, evidence-based approach to, 99-108

Behavioral Tech, LLC, xxii

Behaviorism, in DBT, 112-113

Ben-Porath, D.D., 117-118

Benzodiazepine(s), for BPD, 137

BEST. See Borderline Evaluation of Severity Over Time (BEST)

Best Doctors in America, xvii

Biology, as factor in BPD, 33-47

Biosocial theory, in BPD, 110-112

Birnbaum, R., 30

Black, D.W., xvii-xviii, 171

Blum, N., xviii, 26, 171...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Halftitle
• Title
• Copyright
• About the Editors
• Contents
• About the Contributors
• Foreword
• Introduction
• Borderline Personality Disorder: An Overview
• Confronting Myths and Stereotypes About Borderline Personality Disorder
• Biological Underpinnings of Borderline Personality Disorder
• The Case of Joan
• BPD and the Need for Community: A Social Worker’s Perspective
• Borderline Personality Disorder and Hospitalization
• Borderline Personality Disorder and Adolescence
• An Evidence-Based Approach to Managing Suicidal Behavior in Patients with BPD
• Dialectical Behavior Therapy
• Combined Medication and Dialectical Behavior Therapy for Borderline Personality Disorder
• Supportive Psychotherapy for Borderline Patients
• Transference-Focused Psychotherapy for BPD
• Systems Training for Emotional Predictability and Problem Solving (STEPPS) for the Treatment of BPD
• Mentalization-Based Treatment for BPD
• In Their Own Words: Improving Services and Hopefulness for Families Dealing with BPD
• Fostering Validating Responses in Families
• Family Connections: An Education and Skills Training Program for Family Member Well Being: A Leader’s Perspective
• Inhabited by a Cry: Living with Borderline Personality Disorder
• Index