Stepped Care for Borderline Personality Disorder (eBook)

Stepped Care for Borderline Personality Disorder: Making Treatment Brief, Effective, and Accessible synthesizes the latest research and treatment developments with an aim to make treatment for BPD more accessible to a wider range of patients. The book provides clinicians with innovative, brief and targeted intervention methods for the disorder, offering clinicians a vital guide to the management of patients who are difficult to treat. Acknowledging the early developmental roots of BPD, the book includes sections on BPD in adolescence, childhood precursors of the disorder, and other etiological considerations, also including a roadmap of potential pitfalls.

• Features brief and targeted methods of integrative treatment for BPD patients
• Makes treatment more accessible to a wider range of patients
• Provides clinicians and researchers with a review of the current BPD literature
• Acknowledges problems with, and provides solutions for, treatment access for BPD patients
• Addresses questions regarding the complex developmental trajectories of BPD
• Looks at diagnosis, etiology and stepped-care treatment of BPD

Dr. Paris' research interests include developmental factors in personality disorders (especially BPD), and culture and personality. He has supervised psychiatric evaluation for residents for over 30 years and won many awards for his teaching. Past president of the Association for Research on Personality Disorders. Editor-in-chief of the Canadian Journal of Psychiatry, and author of 19 books, and over 200 journal articles.

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Synthesizing the latest research and treatment developments, Stepped Care for Borderline Personality Disorder: Making Treatment Brief, Effective, and Accessible aims to make treatment for borderling personality disorder (BPD) more accessible by providing clinicians with innovative brief and targeted intervention methods. Focusing on integrative treatment models, it offers clinicians a vital guide to the management of patients who are difficult to treat. Acknowleding the early developmental roots of BPD, the book includes sections on BPD in adolescence, childhood precursors of the disorder, and a broad range of etiological factors. It looks at the pitfalls clinicians face when trying to treat BPD, and offers a roadmap to avoiding them. Brief and targeted methods of integrative treatment for BPD patients Makes treatment more accessible to a wider range of patients Provides clinicians and researchers with a review of the current BPD literature Offers solutions to the problem of treatment access for BPD patients Addresses questions regarding the complex developmental trajectories of BPD Presents a model of stepped care treatment of BPD and describes research on its effectiveness