Borderline Personality Disorder
Myrna M. Weissman, John C. Markowitz, and Gerald L. Klerman
in The Guide to Interpersonal Psychotherapy: Updated and Expanded Edition
Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is a prevalent, debilitating syndrome. Patients with BPD heavily utilize mental health services and have historically had a poor prognosis. In the IPT ...
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Borderline Personality Disorder
Myrna M. Weissman, John C. Markowitz, and Gerald L. Klerman
in Clinician's Quick Guide to Interpersonal Psychotherapy
This chapter discusses adaptations for using interpersonal psychotherapy (IPT) with borderline personality disorder, including conceptualization, and an illustrative case example. ...
Implementation pathway
Anthony W. Bateman and Peter Fonagy
in Psychotherapy for Borderline Personality Disorder: Mentalization-based treatment
This chapter presents a step-by-step guide to implementing the treatment for borderline personality disorder (BPD) described in this manual. It aims to act as a blueprint outlining some of ...
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Treating Borderline Personality Disorder
Kenneth N. Levy
in Psychologists' Desk Reference (3 ed.)
Chapter 38 explores the treatment of borderline personality disorder (BPD) and presents 12 principles for the treatment of BPD, including the comorbidity of BPD, cognitive-behavioral and ...
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The Unified Protocol for Borderline Personality Disorder
Shannon Sauer-Zavala, Kate H. Bentley, and Julianne G. Wilner
in Applications of the Unified Protocol for Transdiagnostic Treatment of Emotional Disorders
Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is a severe, difficult-to-treat psychiatric condition that represents a large proportion of treatment-seeking individuals. This disorder is ...
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Neuropsychological and biological approaches to understanding bipolar disorder
Luke Clark and Barbara J. Sahakian
in The Psychology of Bipolar Disorder: New developments and research strategies
The aims of this chapter are to discuss the contributions of neuropsychological testing to our understanding of bipolar disorder, and to demonstrate how this knowledge can be linked to ...
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Personality Disorders
Marco Del Giudice
in Evolutionary Psychopathology: A Unified Approach
The chapter discusses personality disorders, which are defined as pervasive, enduring, inflexible patterns of dysfunctional behavior linked to abnormal configurations of personality traits. ...
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Borderline personality disorder
Anthony W. Bateman and Roy Krawitz
in Borderline Personality Disorder: An evidence-based guide for generalist mental health professionals
Chapter 1 outlines borderline personality disorder (BPD), the history of BPD, its epidemiology, diagnosis and a thorough discussion of the elements of the DSM-IV-TR diagnostic criteria for ...
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Symptomatic Remissions and Recurrences of the Borderline Diagnosis
Mary C. Zanarini
in In the Fullness of Time: Recovery from Borderline Personality Disorder
Many clinicians are reluctant to treat or actively avoid treating patients with BPD. This is so because of the interpersonal difficulties that tend to arise during such a treatment, and is ...
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STEPPS in the United Kingdom
Renee Harvey
in Systems Training for Emotional Predictability and Problem Solving for Borderline Personality Disorder: Implementing STEPPS Around the Globe
This chapter describes the implementation and dissemination of STEPPS in the United Kingdom (UK). The program is used in several partnerships within the National Health Service in England ...
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Top ten additional resource-efficient treatment strategies
Anthony W. Bateman and Roy Krawitz
in Borderline Personality Disorder: An evidence-based guide for generalist mental health professionals
This chapter describes ten strategies that are additional to those previously described. The effective specialist BPD treatments that have been drawn mostly from in this chapter are DBT and ...
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Family and friends
Anthony W. Bateman and Roy Krawitz
in Borderline Personality Disorder: An evidence-based guide for generalist mental health professionals
This chapter provides an introduction and sections on level of involvement of family and friends in treatment for BPD, guiding suggestions for short two-session interventions for ...
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Borderline Personality Disorder: An evidence-based guide for generalist mental health professionals
Anthony W. Bateman and Roy Krawitz
This is a book for general mental health professionals who treat people with borderline personality disorder (BPD). It offers practical guidance on how to help people with BPD with advice ...
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Structured clinical management: team strategies
Anthony W. Bateman and Roy Krawitz
in Borderline Personality Disorder: An evidence-based guide for generalist mental health professionals
Chapter 4 discusses team strategies of the structured clinical management (SCM) treatment for borderline personality disorder (BPD). It presents a rational for the use of teams, ...
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Structured clinical management: inpatient treatment and prescribing
Anthony W. Bateman and Roy Krawitz
in Borderline Personality Disorder: An evidence-based guide for generalist mental health professionals
Chapter 5 discusses inpatient treatment for borderline personality disorder (BPD), and prescribing, including iatrogenesis, indicators for hospital admission, review of medication, and ...
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Structured clinical management: core treatment strategies
Anthony W. Bateman and Roy Krawitz
in Borderline Personality Disorder: An evidence-based guide for generalist mental health professionals
Chapter 4 explores the core treatment strategies of structured clinical management (SCM) as a treatment for borderline personality disorder (BPD). It includes nonspecific interventions ...
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Dysfunctional beliefs in individuals with bipolar disorders
Warren Mansell and Jan Scott
in The Psychology of Bipolar Disorder: New developments and research strategies
The goal of this chapter is to review the research into dysfunctional beliefs in bipolar disorders. As well as looking at measures of assumptions it discusses some of the findings in ...
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Psychosocial risk factors for bipolar disorder: Current and early environment and cognitive styles
Lauren B. Alloy, Lyn Y. Abramson, Amy M. Neeren, Patricia D. Walshaw, Snezana Urosevic, and Robin Nusslock
in The Psychology of Bipolar Disorder: New developments and research strategies
This chapter reviews empirical research on the role of individuals’ current and early environment and cognitive/personality styles as risk factors for the onset, course, and expression of ...
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Life events as predictors of relapse, depression and mania in bipolar disorder
Sheri L. Johnson and Randy Fingerhut
in The Psychology of Bipolar Disorder: New developments and research strategies
This chapter explores life events as predictors of relapse, depression, and mania in bipolar disorder. It describes methodological issues in studies of life events, studies that do not ...
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Circadian rhythms and internal attributions in bipolar disorder
Steven H. Jones
in The Psychology of Bipolar Disorder: New developments and research strategies
This chapter considers the role that circadian rhythm disturbances may have in the onset and recurrence of bipolar disorder. It aims to provide information to indicate the evidence-base ...
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