Stepped Care for Borderline Personality Disorder
Making Treatment Brief, Effective, and Accessible
- 1st Edition - July 8, 2017
- Author: Joel Paris
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 1 1 4 2 1 - 6
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 1 1 4 2 2 - 3
Synthesizing the latest research and treatment developments, Stepped Care for Borderline Personality Disorder: Making Treatment Brief, Effective, and Accessible aims to make trea… Read more
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
Mental health clinicians; academics in psychology, social work, and psychiatry
Part I: Research on BPD1. Diagnosis2. Etiology3. Outcome4. Evidence-Based Treatment
Part II: Applying a Stepped Care Model5. An Integrative Model6. Making Therapy Accessible: When Less Is More7. Stepped Care8. Adjusting the Plan to the Patient9. Clinical Problems10. Unsolved Problems
- Edition: 1
- Published: July 8, 2017
- Language: English
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Joel Paris
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.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor, Department of Psychiatry, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, CA; Research Associate, Department of Psychiatry, Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, Quebec, CARead Stepped Care for Borderline Personality Disorder on ScienceDirect