Description

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

Author: Paris, Joel

Topic: Psychology
Media: Book
ISBN: 128114215
Language: English
Pages: 202