Stepped Care for Borderline Personality Disorder: Making Treatment Brief, Effective, and Accessible - Softcover

Paris, Joel

 
9780128114216: Stepped Care for Borderline Personality Disorder: Making Treatment Brief, Effective, and Accessible
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0128114215 ISBN 13: 9780128114216
Publisher: Academic Press, 2017

Synopsis

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

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About the Author

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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Publisher
Academic Press
Publication date
2017
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0128114215
ISBN 13 
9780128114216
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
202