
The Current State of Personality Disorders Through the Lens of PDTRT
Carl W. Lejuez, Alexis Matusiewicz, Nadia Bounoua, and James Soldinger
in Using Basic Personality Research to Inform Personality Pathology
This chapter examines recent trends in personality disorder research as they appear in one of the top personality disorder journals—Personality Disorders: Theory, Research, and Treatment ...
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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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History of the Borderline Diagnosis
Mary C. Zanarini
in In the Fullness of Time: Recovery from Borderline Personality Disorder
The borderline diagnosis was first described by Alfred Stern in 1938. However, “borderline personality disorder” (BPD) did not enter the official nomenclature of American psychiatry until ...
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Using Basic Personality Process Models to Inform the Personality Disorders: Core Momentary Stressor-Symptom Contingencies as Basic Etiology
William Fleeson, R. Michael Furr, Malek Mneimne, and Elizabeth Mayfield Arnold
in Using Basic Personality Research to Inform Personality Pathology
This chapter argues that models articulating the processes underlying normal personality traits, even more so than the structure of normal traits, may help to inform research on personality ...
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Mentalization-Based Treatment for Personality Disorders: A Practical Guide
Anthony Bateman and Peter Fonagy
This practical guide on mentalization-based treatment (MBT) of personality disorders outlines the mentalizing model of borderline and antisocial personality disorders and how it translates ...
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Eating Disorders and Borderline Personality Disorder: Strategies for Managing Life-Threatening and Therapy-Interfering Behaviors
Lucene Wisniewski and Leslie K. Anderson
in Clinical Handbook of Complex and Atypical Eating Disorders
Individuals with eating disorders (EDs) tend to have elevated rates of comorbid borderline personality disorder (BPD). A number of studies have found that individuals with both ED and BPD ...
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STEPPS in The Netherlands
Horusta Freije
in Systems Training for Emotional Predictability and Problem Solving for Borderline Personality Disorder: Implementing STEPPS Around the Globe
This chapter describes the introduction and implementation of STEPPS (and STAIRWAYS) in The Netherlands, starting in 1998. The program was translated into the Dutch language (VERS I and ...
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STEPPS in Correctional Settings
Nancee S. Blum and Donald W. Black
in Systems Training for Emotional Predictability and Problem Solving for Borderline Personality Disorder: Implementing STEPPS Around the Globe
This chapter describes STEPPS in Iowa correctional systems and elsewhere, as well as the US federal prison system. The program was introduced to the Iowa correctional system in 2005; data ...
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Research Evidence Supportive of STEPPS
Donald W. Black, Nancee S. Blum, and Jeff Allen
in Systems Training for Emotional Predictability and Problem Solving for Borderline Personality Disorder: Implementing STEPPS Around the Globe
This chapter reviews the empirical database for STEPPS, which now consists of eight uncontrolled studies and three randomized controlled studies. This provides one of the world’s largest ...
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STEPPS in a Residential Therapeutic Community in Italy
Aldo Lombardo
in Systems Training for Emotional Predictability and Problem Solving for Borderline Personality Disorder: Implementing STEPPS Around the Globe
This chapter describes the implementation of STEPPS in a residential therapeutic community in Rome, Italy. STEPPS is integrated with sociotherapy to provide residents and staff with a ...
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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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The mentalizing focus: clarification, affect elaboration, affect focus, and challenge
Anthony Bateman and Peter Fonagy
in Mentalization-Based Treatment for Personality Disorders: A Practical Guide
This chapter covers some of the interventions that the mentalizing clinician can use across treatment. Clarification involves “tidying up” or making meaning and giving context to behaviors ...
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Counseling Clients with Borderline Personality Disorder
Lauren Moffitt Edwards and Noelle Santorelli
in Handbook of Private Practice: Keys to Success for Mental Health Practitioners
Counseling clients with borderline personality disorder requires a variety of skills and lends itself to multimodal treatments such as dialectical behavior therapy. Working with borderline ...
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Psychological Treatments for Personality Disorders
Paul Crits-Christoph and Jacques P. Barber
in A Guide to Treatments That Work (4 edn)
For the treatment of borderline personality disorder, a meta-analysis found statistically significant effects indicating a beneficial effect of dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) over ...
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Comorbidity
Anthony Bateman and Peter Fonagy
in Mentalization-Based Treatment for Personality Disorders: A Practical Guide
This chapter deals with some of the more common comorbid conditions that are likely to be encountered in patients with borderline personality disorder: depression, trauma (including ...
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Introducing STEPPS on an Inpatient Unit in Italy
Andrea Fossati, Roberta Alesiani, Silvia Boccalon, Laura Giarolli, Serena Borroni, and Antonella Somma
in Systems Training for Emotional Predictability and Problem Solving for Borderline Personality Disorder: Implementing STEPPS Around the Globe
This chapter describes how STEPPS has been adapted for inpatients with borderline personality disorder and co-occurring mood disorders at San Raffaele Hospital in Milan, Italy. All of the ...
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Psychiatric Illness Co-occurring with a Substance Use Problem
Dennis C. Daley and Antoine Douaihy
in A Family Guide to Coping with Substance Use Disorders
The combination of an SUD and a psychiatric disorder is called dual or co-occurring disorders (CODs). Rates of SUDs are especially high among individuals with antisocial or borderline ...
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Introduction to the Unified Protocol
David H. Barlow, Todd J. Farchione, Shannon Sauer-Zavala, Heather Murray Latin, Kristen K. Ellard, Jacqueline R. Bullis, Kate H. Bentley, Hannah T. Boettcher, and Clair Cassiello-Robbins
in Unified Protocol for Transdiagnostic Treatment of Emotional Disorders: Therapist Guide (2 edn)
Chapter 1 of the Unified Protocol for Transdiagnostic Treatment of Emotional Disorders: Therapist Guide introduces the treatment program, which is applicable to all anxiety and unipolar ...
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